Crime Statistics for Colindale, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Colindale in September 2024. There were a total of 767 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Colindale, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	184
Anti Social Behaviour	118
Shoplifting	99
Vehicle Crime	91
Other Theft	70
Burglary	58
Public Order	52
Criminal Damage Arson	38
Drugs	26
Other Crime	13
Robbery	10
Theft From The Person	6
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	767

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Colindale. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Colindale

We've taken the ten nearest places to Colindale and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Colindale has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Dollis Hill (1.96 miles)	1324
Church End (1.96 miles)	708
Little Stanmore (1.96 miles)	680
Burnt Oak (1.39 miles)	631
Hendon (1.24 miles)	561
Holders Hill (1.39 miles)	512
Colindale	492
Brent Reservoir (1.03 miles)	486
Canons Park (2.24 miles)	324
Mill Hill (1.96 miles)	207

Where are the most violent places near Colindale?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Colindale and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Dollis Hill	372
Colindale	184
Holders Hill	177
Little Stanmore	148
Brent Reservoir	133
Burnt Oak	132
Church End	119
Hendon	110
Canons Park	85
Mill Hill	48

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Colindale?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Colindale to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Colindale compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Colindale and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Colindale is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dudden Hill	78
2	Dollis Hill	73
3	Burnt Oak	69
4	Fryent	68
5	Welsh Harp	66
6	West Hendon	65
7	Edgware	64
8	Queensbury	60
9	Barnhill	58
10	Colindale	57
11	Hendon	52

Which road in Colindale has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Colindale with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Kingsbury Road.