Crime Statistics for St Nicholas, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Nicholas in September 2024. There were a total of 223 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 Nicholas, 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 Crime76
Anti Social Behaviour62
Criminal Damage Arson19
Shoplifting11
Vehicle Crime11
Other Crime11
Public Order9
Other Theft8
Drugs6
Burglary5
Possession Of Weapons2
Robbery2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime223

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 Nicholas. 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 Nicholas

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bedwell (1.39 miles)371
Chells (0.88 miles)349
Pin Green (0.88 miles)321
St Nicholas223
Aston End (1.75 miles)163
Graveley (1.39 miles)136
Todd’s Green (1.86 miles)105
Fishers Green (1.86 miles)105
Warren’s Green (1.39 miles)62
Hall’s Green (1.75 miles)20

20.93%
of St Nicholas residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near St Nicholas?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Pin Green207
Bedwell138
Chells137
Aston End95
St Nicholas76
Graveley65
Todd’s Green50
Fishers Green50
Warren’s Green18
Hall’s Green3

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

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 Nicholas 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 Nicholas compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St Nicholas and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.St Nicholas is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Bedwell87
2Old Town74
3Pin Green70
4St Nicholas63
5Martins Wood58
6Roebuck54
7Woodfield52
8Chells45
9Bandley Hill44
10Symonds Green30
11Manor28

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

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in St Nicholas 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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