Crime Statistics for St Margarets, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Margarets in September 2024. There were a total of 60 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 St Margarets, 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 Crime27
Anti Social Behaviour8
Public Order6
Vehicle Crime4
Shoplifting4
Other Theft3
Burglary2
Possession Of Weapons2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Other Crime1
Robbery1
All Crime60

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 St Margarets. 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 Margarets

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Hailey (0.88 miles)261
Rye Park (1.39 miles)154
Spitalbrook (1.96 miles)146
Hoddesdon (2.24 miles)72
St Margarets60
Great Amwell (1.39 miles)43
Rush Green (1.96 miles)43
Roydon (1.39 miles)20
Goose Green (2.24 miles)11
Hertford Heath (1.86 miles)9

6.83%
of Great Amwell residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near St Margarets?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Hailey85
Spitalbrook52
Rye Park48
St Margarets27
Hoddesdon25
Roydon12
Rush Green10
Great Amwell8
Goose Green6
Hertford Heath2

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

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 Margarets 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 Margarets compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Roydon74
2Stanstead Abbots54
3Hoddesdon Town and Rye Park49
4Broxbourne and Hoddesdon South49
5Hoddesdon North42
6Lower Nazeing41
7Ware Christchurch37
8Ware Trinity33
9Ware Chadwell31
10Great Amwell26
11Ware St Mary's19

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

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

Last updated: September 2024
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