Crime Statistics for New River, London, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New River in October 2024. There were a total of 268 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 New River, 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	81
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Shoplifting	24
Other Theft	22
Vehicle Crime	22
Public Order	18
Burglary	10
Drugs	9
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Theft From The Person	8
Other Crime	7
Robbery	5
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	268

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes New River. 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 New River

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Enfield Wash (1.26 miles)	1017
Holdbrook (1.02 miles)	710
Freezy Water (1.02 miles)	656
Waltham Cross (0.19 miles)	532
Enfield Lock (1.48 miles)	467
Lea Navigation (1.73 miles)	280
Bulls Cross (0.76 miles)	269
New River	268
Cheshunt (1.26 miles)	251
Churchgate (1.32 miles)	140

Where are the most violent places near New River?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Holdbrook	251
Freezy Water	245
Enfield Wash	222
Waltham Cross	196
Enfield Lock	114
Cheshunt	109
Lea Navigation	96
New River	81
Bulls Cross	66
Churchgate	41

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

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 New River 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 New River compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New River and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New River is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Cheshunt South and Theobalds	73
2	Waltham Cross	72
3	Turkey Street	72
4	Enfield Highway	70
5	Waltham Abbey South West	69
6	Rosedale and Bury Green	66
7	Southbury	64
8	Cheshunt North	57
9	Enfield Lock	56
10	Chase	55
11	Town	40

Which road in New River has the highest level of crime?

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