Crime Statistics for Marshmoor, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Marshmoor in August 2024. There were a total of 314 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour128
Violent Crime67
Other Theft28
Public Order24
Vehicle Crime16
Criminal Damage Arson16
Burglary12
Theft From The Person8
Shoplifting8
Drugs4
Other Crime3
All Crime314

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 Marshmoor. 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 Marshmoor

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Birchwood (1.96 miles)313
South Hatfield (0.62 miles)159
Marshmoor158
Mill Green (1.96 miles)76
Bell Bar (1.39 miles)22
Colney Heath (1.96 miles)18
Brookmans Park (1.39 miles)16
Bullen’s Green (1.39 miles)9
Cooper’s Green (3.1 miles)9
Essendon (2.77 miles)2

24.95%
of Welham Green and Hatfield South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Marshmoor?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Birchwood115
Marshmoor67
South Hatfield51
Mill Green30
Bell Bar7
Colney Heath4
Brookmans Park3
Bullen’s Green2
Cooper’s Green1
Essendon1

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

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 Marshmoor 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 Marshmoor compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Marshmoor and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Marshmoor is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Hatfield Central75
2Potters Bar Oakmere67
3Hatfield South West61
4Shenley59
5Hatfield East58
6Colney Heath58
7Welham Green and Hatfield South57
8Potters Bar Parkfield46
9Hatfield Villages39
10Brookmans Park and Little Heath30
11Ashley28

Which road in Marshmoor has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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