Crime Statistics for Porter’s End, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Porter’s End in October 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Porter’s End, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime1
All Crime1

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 Porter’s End. 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 Porter’s End

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Batford (1.75 miles)100
Cold Harbour (1.39 miles)55
Lea Valley (1.39 miles)47
Bower Heath (1.39 miles)33
Lea (Lee) (1.57 miles)29
Marshalls Heath (1.24 miles)12
Blackmore End (0.62 miles)7
Hoo End (1.75 miles)3
Porter’s End1
Ansells End (0.88 miles)0

7.3%
of Kimpton residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Porter’s End?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Batford12
Lea Valley10
Cold Harbour7
Lea (Lee)6
Bower Heath5
Marshalls Heath4
Blackmore End3
Hoo End1
Porter’s End1
Ansells End0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Porter’s End?

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 Porter’s End 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 Porter’s End compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Crawley79
2Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo50
3Handside40
4Codicote33
5Sandridge33
6Harpenden West30
7Harpenden East29
8Wheathampstead28
9Harpenden North20
10Kimpton12
11Harpenden South9

Which road in Porter’s End has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Porter’s End with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around The Paddocks.

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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