Crime Statistics for Sherrardspark, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2025

Is Sherrardspark rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 182 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 Sherrardspark, 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 Crime57
Anti Social Behaviour33
Shoplifting33
Public Order13
Criminal Damage Arson10
Burglary10
Other Theft6
Drugs5
Robbery4
Other Crime4
Vehicle Crime3
Bicycle Theft2
Possession Of Weapons1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime182

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Sherrardspark. 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 Sherrardspark

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Peartree (0.88 miles)403
Panshanger (1.24 miles)297
Haldens (0.88 miles)270
Handside (0.62 miles)217
Sherrardspark160
Hall Grove (1.75 miles)153
The Frythe (0.88 miles)36
Danesbury (1.86 miles)30
Mimram (2.55 miles)24
Harmer Green (2.24 miles)11

14.06%
of Handside residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sherrardspark?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Peartree127
Panshanger90
Handside86
Haldens77
Sherrardspark57
Hall Grove57
The Frythe15
Mimram12
Danesbury5
Harmer Green3

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

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 Sherrardspark 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 Sherrardspark compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sherrardspark and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sherrardspark is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Hatfield Central75
2Peartree65
3Hollybush62
4Hatfield East58
5Howlands58
6Hertford Rural South43
7Panshanger40
8Handside40
9Haldens40
10Sherrards35
11Welwyn East20

Which road in Sherrardspark has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Sherrardspark with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around A1(M).

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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