Crime Statistics for Newgate Street, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newgate Street in August 2024. There were a total of 15 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Violent Crime	2
Burglary	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	15

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 Newgate Street. 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 Newgate Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Churchgate (2.77 miles)	96
Hammond Street (1.86 miles)	62
Cuffley (0.62 miles)	26
Tolmers (0.62 miles)	25
Newgate Street	15
Tylers Causeway (0.88 miles)	6
Little Berkamstead (2.56 miles)	4
Bayford (2.48 miles)	3
Brickendon (2.24 miles)	2
Epping Green (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Newgate Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hammond Street	43
Churchgate	20
Cuffley	14
Tolmers	4
Little Berkamstead	3
Newgate Street	2
Tylers Causeway	0
Bayford	0
Brickendon	0
Epping Green	0

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

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 Newgate Street 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 Newgate Street compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Cheshunt South and Theobalds	73
2	Potters Bar Oakmere	67
3	Rosedale and Bury Green	66
4	Wormley and Turnford	58
5	Cheshunt North	57
6	Bentley Heath & The Royds	47
7	Potters Bar Parkfield	46
8	Flamstead End	46
9	Goffs Oak	28
10	Northaw and Cuffley	27
11	Hertford Heath	15

Which road in Newgate Street has the highest level of crime?

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