Crime Statistics for Ponders End, London, Enfield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ponders End in September 2024. There were a total of 760 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	171
Violent Crime	166
Shoplifting	94
Vehicle Crime	72
Other Theft	59
Criminal Damage Arson	42
Public Order	39
Drugs	38
Burglary	29
Theft From The Person	19
Robbery	14
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	760

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 Ponders End. 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 Ponders End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Enfield Highway (1.24 miles)	1219
Lower Edmonton (1.39 miles)	1053
Ponders End	760
Forty Hill (1.75 miles)	572
Enfield (1.39 miles)	516
Enfield Wash (1.86 miles)	513
Brimsdown (1.39 miles)	401
Bush Hill Park (1.24 miles)	354
Enfield Town (1.96 miles)	307
Chingford Green (1.96 miles)	196

Where are the most violent places near Ponders End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Enfield Highway	304
Lower Edmonton	248
Ponders End	166
Enfield Wash	149
Forty Hill	123
Brimsdown	118
Bush Hill Park	104
Enfield	102
Chingford Green	86
Enfield Town	78

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

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 Ponders End 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 Ponders End compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Edmonton Green	82
2	Ponders End	74
3	Enfield Highway	70
4	Lower Edmonton	70
5	Jubilee	69
6	Valley	69
7	Southbury	64
8	Endlebury	55
9	Bush Hill Park	47
10	Town	40
11	Grange	37

Which road in Ponders End has the highest level of crime?

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