Crime Statistics for Holywell, Watford, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holywell in September 2024. There were a total of 147 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

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	59
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Other Theft	10
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Shoplifting	10
Vehicle Crime	7
Possession Of Weapons	5
Public Order	5
Drugs	5
Other Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	2
Burglary	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	147

Map of street level crime incidents in September 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
Watford (1.39 miles)	914
North Watford (1.96 miles)	274
Watford Heath (1.96 miles)	188
Carpenders Park (2.24 miles)	176
South Oxhey (2.24 miles)	174
Holywell	147
Batchworth (1.96 miles)	117
Croxley Green (1.24 miles)	77
Batchworth Heath (2.24 miles)	42
Moor Park (1.39 miles)	22

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
Watford	583
North Watford	86
South Oxhey	63
Holywell	59
Watford Heath	56
Carpenders Park	53
Batchworth	34
Croxley Green	23
Batchworth Heath	16
Moor Park	5

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.