Crime Statistics for Sandridge, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sandridge in August 2024. There were a total of 95 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour24
Violent Crime16
Other Theft14
Shoplifting14
Criminal Damage Arson10
Vehicle Crime7
Possession Of Weapons4
Burglary4
Other Crime2
All Crime95

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 Sandridge. 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 Sandridge

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

LocationCrime Incidents
St Albans (2.24 miles)806
Bernards Heath (1.75 miles)626
Marshalswick (1.39 miles)439
Townsend (2.24 miles)258
New Greens (1.96 miles)159
Sandridge89
Childwick Green (1.86 miles)30
Amwell (1.96 miles)10
Cooper’s Green (1.39 miles)9
Ayres End (1.75 miles)6

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



Where are the most violent places near Sandridge?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bernards Heath384
St Albans191
Marshalswick98
Townsend78
New Greens62
Sandridge16
Childwick Green13
Amwell2
Cooper’s Green1
Ayres End1

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

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 Sandridge 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 Sandridge compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sandridge and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sandridge is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Sopwell63
2Batchwood60
3Colney Heath58
4St Peters55
5Clarence34
6Sandridge33
7Wheathampstead28
8Ashley28
9Marshalswick South22
10Marshalswick North18
11Harpenden South9

Which road in Sandridge has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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