Crime Statistics for St Albans, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Albans in August 2024. There were a total of 866 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	194
Violent Crime	191
Anti Social Behaviour	176
Other Theft	90
Vehicle Crime	44
Criminal Damage Arson	38
Public Order	32
Burglary	24
Bicycle Theft	24
Robbery	20
Other Crime	19
Drugs	6
Theft From The Person	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	866

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 St Albans. 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 St Albans

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Albans	806
Bernards Heath (0.62 miles)	626
The Camp (0.88 miles)	612
Marshalswick (0.88 miles)	439
Townsend (0.88 miles)	258
New Greens (1.39 miles)	159
St Julians (1.39 miles)	120
Tyttenhanger (2.24 miles)	106
Park Street (1.96 miles)	48
Childwick Green (1.96 miles)	30

Where are the most violent places near St Albans?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bernards Heath	384
St Albans	191
The Camp	100
Marshalswick	98
Townsend	78
New Greens	62
St Julians	42
Tyttenhanger	23
Park Street	15
Childwick Green	13

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

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 St Albans 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 St Albans compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sopwell	63
2	Cunningham	62
3	Batchwood	60
4	Colney Heath	58
5	Redbourn	56
6	St Peters	55
7	Clarence	34
8	Verulam	32
9	Ashley	28
10	Marshalswick South	22
11	Marshalswick North	18

Which road in St Albans has the highest level of crime?

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