Crime Statistics for High Barnet, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for High Barnet in October 2024. There were a total of 362 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 High 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	106
Anti Social Behaviour	80
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Vehicle Crime	26
Burglary	26
Public Order	24
Shoplifting	16
Other Theft	16
Theft From The Person	10
Drugs	8
Robbery	8
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	362

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 High 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 High Barnet

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

Location	Crime Incidents
High Barnet	335
Monken Hadley (0.62 miles)	267
Hadley	196
Chipping Barnet	196
Underhill (0.88 miles)	169
Hadley Wood (1.39 miles)	150
Barnet (0.62 miles)	137
Ducks Island (0.88 miles)	117
Arkley (1.39 miles)	59
Totteridge (1.24 miles)	30

Where are the most violent places near High Barnet?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
High Barnet	106
Monken Hadley	76
Hadley Wood	71
Hadley	62
Chipping Barnet	62
Underhill	54
Barnet	49
Ducks Island	47
Arkley	21
Totteridge	8

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in High 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 High 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 High Barnet compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Borehamwood Cowley Hill	74
2	Underhill	61
3	East Barnet	54
4	High Barnet	54
5	Mill Hill	49
6	Borehamwood Kenilworth	47
7	Bentley Heath & The Royds	47
8	Oakleigh	45
9	Brunswick Park	41
10	Potters Bar Furzefield	33
11	Totteridge	29

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

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