Crime Statistics for Holywell, Watford, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holywell in August 2024. There were a total of 325 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Holywell, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	91
Shoplifting	62
Anti Social Behaviour	55
Other Theft	34
Public Order	24
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Vehicle Crime	16
Burglary	12
Other Crime	8
Drugs	2
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	325

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Holywell. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Holywell

We've taken the ten nearest places to Holywell and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Holywell has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
North Watford (1.96 miles)	620
Watford (1.39 miles)	549
Holywell	294
Watford Heath (1.96 miles)	192
Carpenders Park (2.24 miles)	174
South Oxhey (2.24 miles)	163
Batchworth (1.96 miles)	117
Croxley Green (1.24 miles)	89
Batchworth Heath (2.24 miles)	42
Moor Park (1.39 miles)	29

Where are the most violent places near Holywell?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Holywell and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
North Watford	158
Watford	151
Holywell	91
South Oxhey	63
Watford Heath	42
Carpenders Park	39
Croxley Green	39
Batchworth	34
Batchworth Heath	16
Moor Park	15

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Holywell?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Holywell to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Holywell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Holywell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Holywell is ranked #10.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central	79
2	Vicarage	59
3	Holywell	55
4	South Oxhey	52
5	Park	49
6	Nascot	47
7	Oxhey	45
8	Oxhey Hall & Hayling	44
9	Durrants	22
10	Dickinsons	22
11	Moor Park & Eastbury	16

Which road in Holywell has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Holywell with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.