Total Crime Rate
100.7 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
36.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Parliament Square area has the 13th highest crime rate of 58 local areas in Hertford Bengeo , and the 79th highest crime rate of 457 local areas in East Hertfordshire .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Parliament Square (SG14 1EX) in the last 12 months was 100.7 per 1,000 residents and was 48.1% higher than the Hertford Bengeo average (68.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 4 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 200.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 5 (≈ 36.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 25.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -71.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Parliament Square (SG14 1EX), the highest concentration of overall crime is near South Street, where police recorded 96 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Fore Street (44 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Bircherley Court | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Fore Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Maidenhead Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Bircherley Court | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Hartham Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Hartham Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Hartham Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Hartham Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fore Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fore Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fore Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Fore Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bell Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Fore Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Fore Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Fore Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Priory Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Fore Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Salisbury Square | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Salisbury Square | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Market Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Market Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bircherley Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bircherley Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bircherley Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Market Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Market Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bus/Coach Station | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Hertford Bus Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Hertford Bus Station | Under investigation |
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