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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lea Valley in August 2024. There were a total of 55 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Violent Crime	14
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	2
Other Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	55

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 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
Harpenden (1.39 miles)	77
Lea Valley	55
Bower Heath (0.88 miles)	52
Cold Harbour (0.88 miles)	52
Lea (Lee) (0.48 miles)	25
Marshalls Heath (0.62 miles)	15
Blackmore End (0.88 miles)	12
Leasey Bridge (0.88 miles)	10
The Folly (0.88 miles)	10

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
Harpenden	22
Bower Heath	20
Batford	18
Lea Valley	14
Cold Harbour	12
Lea (Lee)	3
Marshalls Heath	1
Blackmore End	1
Leasey Bridge	1
The Folly	1

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 Station Road.