Crime Statistics for Hendon, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hendon in October 2024. There were a total of 834 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 Hendon, 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	205
Anti Social Behaviour	134
Shoplifting	104
Vehicle Crime	91
Other Theft	77
Drugs	54
Burglary	50
Public Order	35
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Robbery	22
Theft From The Person	18
Other Crime	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	834

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 Hendon. 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 Hendon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dollis Hill (1.96 miles)	1218
Hendon	754
Holders Hill (0.62 miles)	729
Child’s Hill (1.96 miles)	678
Colindale (1.24 miles)	610
Brent Reservoir (1.23 miles)	497
Finchley (1.39 miles)	423
Church End (0.88 miles)	398
Mill Hill (1.96 miles)	341
Hampstead Garden Suburb (1.96 miles)	242

Where are the most violent places near Hendon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dollis Hill	283
Holders Hill	228
Hendon	205
Finchley	178
Child’s Hill	153
Colindale	132
Church End	111
Mill Hill	106
Brent Reservoir	92
Hampstead Garden Suburb	48

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

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 Hendon 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 Hendon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Dudden Hill	78
2	Mapesbury	74
3	Dollis Hill	73
4	Childs Hill	69
5	Fryent	68
6	Welsh Harp	66
7	West Hendon	65
8	Colindale	57
9	Golders Green	55
10	Hendon	52
11	Finchley Church End	38

Which road in Hendon has the highest level of crime?

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