Crime Statistics for Hadley Wood, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hadley Wood in August 2024. There were a total of 530 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 Hadley Wood, 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	172
Anti Social Behaviour	162
Vehicle Crime	44
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Other Theft	28
Public Order	24
Burglary	20
Robbery	16
Theft From The Person	12
Drugs	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
Shoplifting	4
All Crime	530

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 Hadley Wood. 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 Hadley Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cockfosters (0.88 miles)	285
Chipping Barnet (1.39 miles)	284
Hadley Wood	266
Monken Hadley (1.24 miles)	220
New Barnet (1.24 miles)	182
Barnet (1.75 miles)	161
Underhill (1.39 miles)	136
High Barnet (1.39 miles)	127
Hadley (1.39 miles)	127
Bentley Heath (1.75 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Hadley Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hadley Wood	172
Monken Hadley	128
Chipping Barnet	90
Cockfosters	87
Barnet	72
New Barnet	50
High Barnet	38
Hadley	38
Underhill	35
Bentley Heath	2

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

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 Hadley Wood 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 Hadley Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hadley Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hadley Wood is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Potters Bar Oakmere	67
2	Underhill	61
3	East Barnet	54
4	High Barnet	54
5	Bentley Heath & The Royds	47
6	Oakleigh	45
7	Brunswick Park	41
8	Cockfosters	40
9	Potters Bar Furzefield	33
10	Southgate	32
11	Totteridge	29

Which road in Hadley Wood has the highest level of crime?

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