Crime Statistics for South Hatfield, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Hatfield in September 2024. There were a total of 148 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 South Hatfield, 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	52
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Other Theft	17
Drugs	10
Public Order	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Burglary	6
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Robbery	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	148

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Birchwood (1.86 miles)	313
South Hatfield	123
Tyttenhanger (2.55 miles)	88
Mill Green (2.24 miles)	81
Marshmoor (0.62 miles)	65
Bell Bar (1.96 miles)	22
Brookmans Park (1.75 miles)	21
Cooper’s Green (2.63 miles)	17
Colney Heath (1.39 miles)	13
Bullen’s Green (0.88 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near South Hatfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Birchwood	115
South Hatfield	52
Mill Green	37
Tyttenhanger	25
Marshmoor	21
Bell Bar	7
Colney Heath	7
Brookmans Park	5
Bullen’s Green	5
Cooper’s Green	3

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

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 South Hatfield 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 South Hatfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hatfield Central	75
2	Hatfield South West	61
3	Shenley	59
4	Hatfield East	58
5	Colney Heath	58
6	Welham Green and Hatfield South	57
7	Potters Bar Parkfield	46
8	Hatfield Villages	39
9	Brookmans Park and Little Heath	30
10	Ashley	28
11	Marshalswick North	18

Which road in South Hatfield has the highest level of crime?

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