Crime in WD17 1

The WD17 1 postcode sector, in the WD (Watford) postcode area, with most records published by Hertfordshire Constabulary.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 625 street-crime records for WD17 1 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.6% fewer than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

625

Share of WD17

27.8%

Year-on-year

-8.6%

WD17 1 holds 27.8% of the 2,248 records assigned to WD17 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	53
October 2025	50
November 2025	36
December 2025	44
January 2026	40
February 2026	44
March 2026	46
April 2026	40
May 2026	50
June 2026	67
July 2026	98
August 2026	57

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

25% of this area's records sit at postcodes created after Census Day 2021, whose residents the census could not count, so no rate is shown.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Category mix compared

Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Hertfordshire Constabulary.

Category	WD17 1	WD17	Force
Violence and sexual offences	27.0%	24.1%	33.9%
Anti-social behaviour	22.2%	17.8%	20.5%
Shoplifting	14.7%	21.9%	8.3%
Drugs	6.6%	4.2%	3.6%
Other theft	6.4%	6.9%	7.9%
Public order	5.4%	5.4%	5.3%
Criminal damage and arson	4.2%	4.7%	6.4%
Bicycle theft	3.5%	3.0%	0.8%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for WD17 1 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	962
2022	1,128
2023	865
2024	683
2025	625
2026 (part year)	442

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 sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Full detail is on the methodology page and in what a postcode district crime page shows, which covers sectors too.

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Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district in Hertfordshire

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 2,199 Census 2021 residents of WD17 1.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

0% 1

0% 2

23% 3

3% 4

60% 5

0% 6

15% 7

0% 8

0% 9

0% 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.

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This page updates as new months are published, so a citation needs the months shown and the date you read it. One click selects the whole citation. The CSV holds this page's monthly and category figures for WD17 1 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. WD17 1 postcode sector: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/sectors/wd17-1/

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