Crime Statistics for Chells, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, 2024

Is Chells rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 322 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 Chells, 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 Crime160
Anti Social Behaviour48
Criminal Damage Arson26
Vehicle Crime22
Public Order16
Drugs14
Other Theft12
Other Crime8
Burglary6
Shoplifting4
Bicycle Theft2
Possession Of Weapons2
Theft From The Person2
All Crime322

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Chells. 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 Chells

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Pin Green (1.24 miles)802
Bedwell (1.39 miles)354
Chells315
Shephall (1.39 miles)262
St Nicholas (0.88 miles)201
Poplars (1.24 miles)184
Aston End (0.88 miles)97
Warren’s Green (1.86 miles)35
Hall’s Green (1.96 miles)9
Walkern (1.96 miles)5

15.19%
of Chells residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Chells?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Pin Green548
Chells160
Bedwell146
Shephall88
St Nicholas83
Poplars66
Aston End36
Warren’s Green14
Hall’s Green4
Walkern3

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

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 Chells 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 Chells compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chells and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chells is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Bedwell87
2Shephall77
3Old Town74
4Pin Green70
5St Nicholas63
6Martins Wood58
7Roebuck54
8Woodfield52
9Chells45
10Bandley Hill44
11Manor28

Which road in Chells has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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