Crime Statistics for St Margarets, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, 2024

There were a total of 74 street level crime incidents in St Margarets in March 2024. 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	27
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Drugs	3
Robbery	3
Public Order	2
Other Crime	2
Burglary	2
Shoplifting	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	74

Map of street level crime incidents in March 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Spitalbrook (1.96 miles)	163
Rye Park (1.39 miles)	160
Hailey (0.88 miles)	158
Hoddesdon (2.24 miles)	88
St Margarets	74
Rush Green (1.96 miles)	35
Great Amwell (1.39 miles)	21
Roydon (1.39 miles)	17
Hertford Heath (1.86 miles)	8
Goose Green (2.24 miles)	4

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Rye Park	36
Hailey	36
Spitalbrook	31
St Margarets	27
Hoddesdon	22
Rush Green	11
Roydon	7
Great Amwell	3
Hertford Heath	2
Goose Green	2

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Roydon	74
2	Stanstead Abbots	54
3	Hoddesdon Town and Rye Park	49
4	Broxbourne and Hoddesdon South	49
5	Hoddesdon North	42
6	Lower Nazeing	41
7	Ware Christchurch	37
8	Ware Trinity	33
9	Ware Chadwell	31
10	Great Amwell	26
11	Ware St Mary's	19

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 River Meads.