Crime Statistics for Oakfield, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Oakfield in September 2024. There were a total of 120 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	39
Violent Crime	22
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Other Theft	8
Theft From The Person	6
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Public Order	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Drugs	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	120

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 Oakfield. 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 Oakfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walsworth (1.24 miles)	201
Hitchin (1.24 miles)	184
Oakfield	120
Hitchin Hill (0.62 miles)	114
Hiz (0.44 miles)	75
St Ippollitts (0.62 miles)	41
Little Wymondley (1.39 miles)	18
Great Wymondley (1.24 miles)	14
Gosmore (0.88 miles)	11
Charlton (1.24 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Oakfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hitchin	93
Walsworth	69
Oakfield	22
Hitchin Hill	19
Hiz	17
Great Wymondley	6
Little Wymondley	4
Gosmore	4
St Ippollitts	3
Charlton	1

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

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 Oakfield 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 Oakfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Old Town	74
2	Hitchin Oughton	64
3	Woodfield	52
4	Letchworth South West	43
5	Cadwell	40
6	Hitchin Bearton	39
7	Hitchin Priory	34
8	Symonds Green	30
9	Hitchin Highbury	29
10	Hitchin Walsworth	20
11	Chesfield	19

Which road in Oakfield has the highest level of crime?

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