Crime Statistics for Cuffley, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cuffley in September 2024. There were a total of 26 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cuffley, 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 Crime14
Criminal Damage Arson4
Anti Social Behaviour4
Other Theft2
Vehicle Crime1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime26

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 Cuffley. 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 Cuffley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Churchgate (2.55 miles)140
Crews Hill (2.56 miles)61
Hammond Street (1.96 miles)56
Cuffley26
Tolmers26
Newgate Street (0.62 miles)17
Tylers Causeway (1.39 miles)4
Brickendon (2.78 miles)4
Botany Bay (2.56 miles)2
Epping Green (1.96 miles)1

13.49%
of Northaw and Cuffley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cuffley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Churchgate41
Crews Hill25
Hammond Street23
Cuffley14
Tolmers14
Newgate Street11
Tylers Causeway0
Brickendon0
Botany Bay0
Epping Green0

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

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 Cuffley 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 Cuffley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Cheshunt South and Theobalds73
2Potters Bar Oakmere67
3Rosedale and Bury Green66
4Cheshunt North57
5Chase55
6Bentley Heath & The Royds47
7Potters Bar Parkfield46
8Flamstead End46
9Goffs Oak28
10Northaw and Cuffley27
11Hertford Heath15

Which road in Cuffley has the highest level of crime?

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

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