Crime Statistics for Cockfosters, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cockfosters in September 2024. There were a total of 355 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 Cockfosters, 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	87
Anti Social Behaviour	78
Vehicle Crime	66
Other Theft	27
Burglary	26
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Shoplifting	13
Public Order	11
Drugs	9
Robbery	9
Other Crime	3
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	355

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 Cockfosters. 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 Cockfosters

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

Location	Crime Incidents
High Barnet (1.86 miles)	296
Cockfosters	285
Chipping Barnet (1.86 miles)	284
Oakwood (1.39 miles)	243
New Barnet (0.88 miles)	216
Oakleigh Park (1.39 miles)	179
Hadley (1.86 miles)	176
Hadley Wood (0.88 miles)	170
Underhill (1.39 miles)	161
Monken Hadley (1.96 miles)	146

Where are the most violent places near Cockfosters?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chipping Barnet	90
Cockfosters	87
High Barnet	86
Oakwood	56
Hadley	47
New Barnet	46
Hadley Wood	44
Monken Hadley	36
Oakleigh Park	33
Underhill	33

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

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 Cockfosters 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 Cockfosters compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cockfosters and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cockfosters is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Woodhouse	59
2	Southgate Green	58
3	East Barnet	54
4	High Barnet	54
5	Bentley Heath & The Royds	47
6	West Finchley	45
7	Oakleigh	45
8	Brunswick Park	41
9	Cockfosters	40
10	Southgate	32
11	Totteridge	29

Which road in Cockfosters has the highest level of crime?

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