Crime Statistics for Friern Barnet, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Friern Barnet in August 2024. There were a total of 949 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour299
Violent Crime258
Burglary100
Vehicle Crime60
Shoplifting56
Public Order48
Other Theft44
Drugs28
Criminal Damage Arson24
Theft From The Person16
Other Crime12
Robbery4
All Crime949

Map of street level crime incidents in August 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Bowes Park (1.39 miles)481
Friern Barnet472
Colney Hatch (0.88 miles)440
Brunswick Park (0.62 miles)357
Palmers Green (1.39 miles)338
New Southgate (0.62 miles)271
Cranley Gardens (1.86 miles)238
Oakwood (1.96 miles)222
Southgate (1.75 miles)217
Oakleigh Park (1.75 miles)159

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Friern Barnet258
Bowes Park154
Colney Hatch136
Brunswick Park106
Palmers Green91
Oakwood82
New Southgate80
Cranley Gardens57
Southgate49
Oakleigh Park41

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.

#WardScore
1Bounds Green68
2Muswell Hill67
3Coppetts65
4Woodhouse59
5Southgate Green58
6Alexandra57
7Fortis Green51
8West Finchley45
9East Finchley45
10Brunswick Park41
11Totteridge29

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 this marker.

Last updated: August 2024
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