Crime Statistics for Hartford, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 2024

Crime statistics for Hartford, Huntingdon

There were a total of 142 street level crime incidents in Hartford in January 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 Hartford, 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 Crime43
Anti Social Behaviour17
Shoplifting16
Criminal Damage Arson14
Public Order12
Burglary8
Bicycle Theft7
Robbery6
Vehicle Crime6
Other Theft6
Drugs4
Possession Of Weapons2
Other Crime1
All Crime142

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Hartford. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Hartford

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Hartford142
St Ives (3.1 miles)42
Hemingford Abbots (1.75 miles)11
Great Ouse (2.64 miles)11
Offord Cluny (3.97 miles)11
Green End (2.24 miles)8
Hemingford Grey (2.77 miles)5
Little Stukeley (3.62 miles)2
Abbots Ripton (3.34 miles)1
Great Stukeley (2.77 miles)1

12.27%
of Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hartford?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Hartford43
St Ives17
Great Ouse4
Hemingford Grey3
Hemingford Abbots2
Offord Cluny2
Green End1
Little Stukeley0
Abbots Ripton0
Great Stukeley0

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

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 Hartford 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 Hartford compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Huntingdon North51
2Huntingdon East49
3St Ives West40
4St Ives South33
5St Ives East31
6Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots25
7Hemingford Grey & Houghton25
8Alconbury24
9Brampton24
10Buckden22
11The Stukeleys18

Which road in Hartford has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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