Crime Statistics for Lea Valley, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lea Valley in September 2024. There were a total of 62 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 Lea Valley, 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	19
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Vehicle Crime	8
Public Order	7
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Burglary	2
Other Theft	2
All Crime	62

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 Lea Valley. 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 Lea Valley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Batford (0.62 miles)	90
Cold Harbour (0.88 miles)	83
Harpenden (1.39 miles)	66
Bower Heath (0.88 miles)	44
Lea Valley	44
Lea (Lee) (0.48 miles)	21
Leasey Bridge (0.88 miles)	15
The Folly (0.88 miles)	15
Marshalls Heath (0.62 miles)	12
Blackmore End (0.88 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Lea Valley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cold Harbour	19
Lea Valley	19
Batford	18
Harpenden	12
Bower Heath	11
Lea (Lee)	5
Leasey Bridge	4
The Folly	4
Marshalls Heath	3
Blackmore End	2

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

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 Lea Valley 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 Lea Valley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lea Valley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lea Valley is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Batchwood	60
2	Codicote	33
3	Sandridge	33
4	Harpenden West	30
5	Harpenden East	29
6	Wheathampstead	28
7	Marshalswick South	22
8	Harpenden North	20
9	Marshalswick North	18
10	Kimpton	12
11	Harpenden South	9

Which road in Lea Valley has the highest level of crime?

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