Crime in WD6 1

The WD6 1 postcode sector, in the WD (Watford) postcode area, with most records published by Hertfordshire Constabulary.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,360 street-crime records for WD6 1 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 9.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 141.7 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.

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Last 12 published months

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

Street-crime records

1,360

Share of WD6

30.5%

Year-on-year

-9.5%

WD6 1 holds 30.5% of the 4,466 records assigned to WD6 in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

Sep

Oct

Nov

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Aug

Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	116
October 2025	115
November 2025	114
December 2025	104
January 2026	111
February 2026	71
March 2026	136
April 2026	126
May 2026	99
June 2026	126
July 2026	121
August 2026	121

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.

WD6 1

141.7

Hertfordshire Constabulary

91.4

1,360 records and 9,595 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.

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	WD6 1	WD6	Force
Violence and sexual offences	27.0%	33.3%	33.9%
Anti-social behaviour	17.0%	21.5%	20.5%
Other theft	12.7%	7.5%	7.9%
Shoplifting	11.9%	6.7%	8.3%
Public order	7.8%	6.6%	5.3%
Drugs	7.0%	5.5%	3.6%
Criminal damage and arson	5.4%	6.1%	6.4%
Vehicle crime	3.5%	4.4%	5.3%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for WD6 1 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	1,405
2022	1,418
2023	1,533
2024	1,405
2025	1,480
2026 (part year)	911

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 9,595 Census 2021 residents of WD6 1.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 13.6% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

0% 1

14% 2

7% 3

10% 4

0% 5

17% 6

47% 7

6% 8

0% 9

0% 10

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

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 WD6 1 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. WD6 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/wd6-1/

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