Crime Statistics for High Barnet, London, Barnet, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for High Barnet in September 2024. There were a total of 324 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	88
Violent Crime	86
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Other Theft	26
Vehicle Crime	18
Public Order	16
Drugs	14
Other Crime	13
Burglary	11
Shoplifting	10
Theft From The Person	6
Robbery	6
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	324

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 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	296
Chipping Barnet	284
Hadley	176
Hadley Wood (1.39 miles)	170
Underhill (0.88 miles)	161
Barnet (0.62 miles)	161
Monken Hadley (0.62 miles)	146
Ducks Island (0.88 miles)	83
Arkley (1.39 miles)	46
Totteridge (1.24 miles)	29

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
Chipping Barnet	90
High Barnet	86
Barnet	72
Hadley	47
Hadley Wood	44
Monken Hadley	36
Underhill	33
Ducks Island	28
Totteridge	11
Arkley	5

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 this marker.