Bentley Heath & The Royds
WardEast Hertsmere. About 6,053 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 5.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Bentley Heath & The Royds live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bentley Heath & The Royds compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bentley Heath & The Royds safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bentley Heath & The Royds at a rate of 72.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 89.1 per 1,000 people across Hertsmere.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 36 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bentley Heath & The Royds.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (122), anti-social behaviour (61) and other crime (45).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Hertsmere
These figures are published for the whole of Hertsmere, not for each ward, so they describe all of Hertsmere and not Bentley Heath & The Royds alone. See Hertsmere
Bentley Heath & The Royds in brief
Bentley Heath & The Royds had 5,974 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Bentley Heath & The Royds live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bentley Heath & The Royds, 95.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bentley Heath & The Royds, 4.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.