Crime Statistics for Friern Barnet, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Friern Barnet in September 2024. There were a total of 391 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 Friern Barnet, 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	97
Anti Social Behaviour	74
Vehicle Crime	57
Shoplifting	51
Other Theft	25
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Burglary	21
Public Order	18
Drugs	10
Robbery	7
Theft From The Person	5
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	391

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 Friern Barnet. 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 Friern Barnet

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bowes Park (1.39 miles)	1052
Palmers Green (1.39 miles)	865
New Southgate (0.62 miles)	437
Colney Hatch (0.88 miles)	426
Southgate (1.75 miles)	422
Friern Barnet	391
Brunswick Park (0.62 miles)	357
Cranley Gardens (1.86 miles)	336
Oakwood (1.96 miles)	243
Oakleigh Park (1.75 miles)	179

Where are the most violent places near Friern Barnet?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bowes Park	297
Palmers Green	167
New Southgate	105
Colney Hatch	103
Friern Barnet	97
Brunswick Park	84
Southgate	56
Oakwood	56
Cranley Gardens	45
Oakleigh Park	33

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

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 Friern Barnet 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 Friern Barnet compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Friern Barnet and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Friern Barnet is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bounds Green	68
2	Muswell Hill	67
3	Coppetts	65
4	Woodhouse	59
5	Southgate Green	58
6	Alexandra	57
7	Fortis Green	51
8	West Finchley	45
9	East Finchley	45
10	Brunswick Park	41
11	Totteridge	29

Which road in Friern Barnet has the highest level of crime?

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