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East Hertfordshire crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 10,729 street-crime records for the East Hertfordshire council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 71.4 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 91.4 for Hertfordshire Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area East Hertfordshire council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call East Hertfordshire: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
10,729
Latest month (August 2026)
1,051
Year-on-year
+7.5%
Month-by-month totals
1,0740
854
Sep
847
Oct
834
Nov
863
Dec
694
Jan
761
Feb
853
Mar
888
Apr
999
May
1.0k
Jun
1.1k
Jul
1.1k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
854
October 2025
847
November 2025
834
December 2025
863
January 2026
694
February 2026
761
March 2026
853
April 2026
888
May 2026
999
June 2026
1,011
July 2026
1,074
August 2026
1,051
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
East Hertfordshire council area
71.4
Hertfordshire Constabulary
91.4
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
10,729 records and 150,328 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of the East Hertfordshire council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences35.2%
3,774 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour22.9%
2,454 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting6.9%
744 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft6.7%
715 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.1%
652 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Vehicle crime5.3%
570 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Public order4.9%
530 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Burglary3.8%
413 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the East Hertfordshire council area
Records by part of the East Hertfordshire council area: the south-west 4,212, the east 3,759, the south-east 1,241, the west 1,169, the south 980, the north 890, the north-west 561, the north-east 139, the centre 9.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the East Hertfordshire council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the East Hertfordshire council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the East Hertfordshire council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the East Hertfordshire council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the East Hertfordshire council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000242), which can differ from the place people call East Hertfordshire.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for East Hertfordshire. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.