Crime Statistics for Rowley Green, Hertsmere, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rowley Green in October 2024. There were a total of 578 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 Rowley Green, 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	182
Anti Social Behaviour	104
Shoplifting	80
Vehicle Crime	52
Other Theft	36
Drugs	32
Burglary	32
Public Order	28
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Theft From The Person	8
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	578

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 Rowley Green. 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 Rowley Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
High Barnet (1.86 miles)	335
Borehamwood (1.39 miles)	304
Rowley Green	290
Monken Hadley (1.96 miles)	267
Hadley (1.86 miles)	196
Chipping Barnet (1.86 miles)	196
Barnet (1.96 miles)	137
Ducks Island (1.39 miles)	117
Barnet Gate (0.62 miles)	108
Arkley (0.88 miles)	59

Where are the most violent places near Rowley Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rowley Green	182
High Barnet	106
Borehamwood	88
Monken Hadley	76
Hadley	62
Chipping Barnet	62
Barnet	49
Ducks Island	47
Barnet Gate	30
Arkley	21

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

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 Rowley Green 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 Rowley Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rowley Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rowley Green is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Borehamwood Cowley Hill	74
2	Borehamwood Brookmeadow	72
3	Borehamwood Hillside	62
4	Underhill	61
5	High Barnet	54
6	Aldenham East	51
7	Edgware	49
8	Hale	48
9	Borehamwood Kenilworth	47
10	Elstree	40
11	Potters Bar Furzefield	33

Which road in Rowley Green has the highest level of crime?

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