Crime Statistics for Edgware, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Edgware in September 2024. There were a total of 384 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	89
Violent Crime	88
Vehicle Crime	36
Other Theft	28
Burglary	26
Public Order	21
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Theft From The Person	18
Drugs	16
Shoplifting	16
Other Crime	10
Robbery	9
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	384

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 Edgware. 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 Edgware

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Stanmore (1.39 miles)	680
Burnt Oak (0.88 miles)	631
Harrow Weald (2.77 miles)	511
Colindale (2.24 miles)	492
Belmont (2.24 miles)	457
Edgware	384
Canons Park (0.88 miles)	324
Mill Hill (1.86 miles)	207
Barnet Gate (2.24 miles)	82
Arkley (2.63 miles)	46

Where are the most violent places near Edgware?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Colindale	184
Little Stanmore	148
Harrow Weald	133
Belmont	133
Burnt Oak	132
Edgware	88
Canons Park	85
Mill Hill	48
Barnet Gate	22
Arkley	5

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

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 Edgware 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 Edgware compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Edgware and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Edgware have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Belmont.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burnt Oak	69
2	Fryent	68
3	Edgware	64
4	Queensbury	60
5	Edgware	49
6	Hale	48
7	Canons	39
8	Stanmore Park	38
9	Kenton East	38
10	Queensbury	37
11	Belmont	34

Which road in Edgware has the highest level of crime?

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