Crime Statistics for Highgate, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highgate in September 2024. There were a total of 975 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	276
Violent Crime	169
Vehicle Crime	109
Shoplifting	81
Other Theft	63
Burglary	61
Public Order	43
Theft From The Person	40
Robbery	36
Bicycle Theft	32
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Drugs	22
Possession Of Weapons	7
Other Crime	4
All Crime	975

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 Highgate. 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 Highgate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Finsbury Park (1.39 miles)	1938
Hampstead (1.75 miles)	1528
Gospel Oak (1.24 miles)	1400
Tufnell Park (1.39 miles)	1169
Hornsey Vale (1.39 miles)	1027
Crouch End (0.88 miles)	801
Highgate	745
Cranley Gardens (1.24 miles)	336
Fortis Green (1.39 miles)	307
Hampstead Garden Suburb (1.39 miles)	183

Where are the most violent places near Highgate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tufnell Park	416
Finsbury Park	362
Hampstead	295
Gospel Oak	227
Hornsey Vale	184
Highgate	169
Crouch End	149
Hampstead Garden Suburb	73
Fortis Green	54
Cranley Gardens	45

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

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 Highgate 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 Highgate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Highgate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Highgate is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Junction	88
2	Tollington	83
3	St George's	80
4	Hillrise	75
5	Highgate	73
6	Kentish Town	67
7	Gospel Oak	64
8	Highgate	61
9	Belsize	58
10	Hampstead Town	40
11	Frognal and Fitzjohns	34

Which road in Highgate has the highest level of crime?

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