Crime Statistics for Finchley, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Finchley in October 2024. There were a total of 598 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 Finchley, 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	178
Anti Social Behaviour	106
Vehicle Crime	87
Other Theft	60
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Burglary	36
Shoplifting	24
Theft From The Person	21
Public Order	21
Drugs	16
Possession Of Weapons	5
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	598

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Finchley. 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 Finchley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hendon (1.39 miles)	754
Friern Barnet (2.24 miles)	733
Holders Hill (1.24 miles)	729
Colney Hatch (1.39 miles)	431
Finchley	423
Church End (0.62 miles)	398
Mill Hill (2.24 miles)	341
Cranley Gardens (1.96 miles)	334
Fortis Green (1.39 miles)	258
Hampstead Garden Suburb (1.39 miles)	242

Where are the most violent places near Finchley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Friern Barnet	292
Holders Hill	228
Hendon	205
Finchley	178
Church End	111
Mill Hill	106
Colney Hatch	82
Cranley Gardens	59
Hampstead Garden Suburb	48
Fortis Green	44

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

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 Finchley 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 Finchley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Childs Hill	69
2	West Hendon	65
3	Woodhouse	59
4	Golders Green	55
5	Hendon	52
6	Mill Hill	49
7	Garden Suburb	48
8	West Finchley	45
9	East Finchley	45
10	Finchley Church End	38
11	Totteridge	29

Which road in Finchley has the highest level of crime?

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