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HP18 crime rate and statistics
The HP18 postcode district, in the HP (Hemel Hempstead) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 898 street-crime records for HP18 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.6% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 39.8 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 78.4 for Thames Valley Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
898
Latest month (August 2026)
72
Year-on-year
-0.6%
Month-by-month totals
950
67
Sep
72
Oct
92
Nov
72
Dec
81
Jan
57
Feb
75
Mar
59
Apr
95
May
70
Jun
86
Jul
72
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
67
October 2025
72
November 2025
92
December 2025
72
January 2026
81
February 2026
57
March 2026
75
April 2026
59
May 2026
95
June 2026
70
July 2026
86
August 2026
72
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.
HP18
39.8
Thames Valley Police
78.4
898 records and 22,545 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 HP18 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 offences50.7%
455 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Other theft11.2%
101 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Anti-social behaviour9.1%
82 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson7.7%
69 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order5.7%
51 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Vehicle crime4.1%
37 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Other crime4.1%
37 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Burglary2.2%
20 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in HP18
Records by part of HP18: the east 475, the south-west 165, the north-west 119, the north-east 73, the west 69, the south-east 28, the south 15, the north 12.
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 HP18's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and HP18'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 HP18 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore HP18 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for HP18 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
779
2022
862
2023
997
2024
885
2025
928
2026 (part year)
595
Is HP18 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for HP18 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 75 records a month. The busiest month was May 2026, with 95.
Records here changed by -0.6% on the 12 months before, against +2.1% across the Thames Valley Police area, the main force here with 99.3% of HP18's records, over the same months. With 898 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 50.7% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in HP18 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 22,545 Census 2021 residents of HP18.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 20.4% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
0%3
6%4
14%5
6%6
27%7
27%8
15%9
6%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
About HP18 beyond crime
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
House prices
Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£409,000 (162)
2025
£396,000 (293)
2024
£394,000 (271)
2023
£405,000 (270)
2022
£407,500 (495)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£617,500 (52)
£399,000 (52)
£365,000 (43)
£210,000 (15)
2025
£631,000 (92)
£390,000 (90)
£349,500 (61)
£246,500 (50)
2024
£593,750 (84)
£385,000 (96)
£367,500 (62)
£237,500 (29)
2023
£560,000 (90)
£395,000 (103)
£340,000 (56)
£222,500 (21)
2022
£640,000 (167)
£395,000 (162)
£365,000 (95)
£230,000 (71)
Schools and colleges
11 open establishments with a postcode in HP18, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.
Highest band
Postcodes
High
23
Medium
13
Low
27
Very low
0
Broadband
Share of the 688 postcodes in HP18 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
59.3%
72.4%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
79.2%
89.4%
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