Crime Statistics for Potters Crouch, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Potters Crouch in August 2024. There were a total of 6 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Potters Crouch, 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	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Drugs	1
Public Order	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	6

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 Potters Crouch. 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 Potters Crouch

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Townsend (2.63 miles)	258
Waterdale (1.86 miles)	139
St Julians (1.86 miles)	120
Bedmond (1.75 miles)	59
Bricket Wood (2.24 miles)	50
Park Street (1.96 miles)	48
Chiswell Green (1.39 miles)	34
Pimlico (1.24 miles)	15
Potters Crouch	5
Gorhambury (1.24 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Potters Crouch?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Townsend	78
Waterdale	53
St Julians	42
Chiswell Green	28
Bricket Wood	18
Bedmond	17
Park Street	15
Pimlico	8
Potters Crouch	2
Gorhambury	0

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

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 Potters Crouch 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 Potters Crouch compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Potters Crouch and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Potters Crouch is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bennetts End	58
2	Redbourn	56
3	St Peters	55
4	Park Street	53
5	Nash Mills	50
6	Gade Valley	49
7	Leavesden	45
8	Leverstock Green	44
9	Abbots Langley & Bedmond	42
10	St Stephen	36
11	Verulam	32

Which road in Potters Crouch has the highest level of crime?

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