Crime Statistics for Oakwood, London, Enfield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Oakwood in September 2024. There were a total of 243 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 Oakwood, 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	56
Anti Social Behaviour	47
Shoplifting	37
Vehicle Crime	24
Other Theft	16
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Public Order	13
Drugs	12
Burglary	11
Robbery	8
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	243

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 Oakwood. 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 Oakwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Palmers Green (1.39 miles)	865
New Southgate (1.86 miles)	437
Southgate (0.88 miles)	422
Brunswick Park (1.39 miles)	357
Enfield Town (1.96 miles)	307
Cockfosters (1.39 miles)	285
Grange Park (1.24 miles)	284
Oakwood	243
New Barnet (1.86 miles)	216
Oakleigh Park (1.96 miles)	179

Where are the most violent places near Oakwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Palmers Green	167
New Southgate	105
Cockfosters	87
Brunswick Park	84
Enfield Town	78
Grange Park	73
Southgate	56
Oakwood	56
New Barnet	46
Oakleigh Park	33

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

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 Oakwood 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 Oakwood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bounds Green	68
2	Bowes	60
3	Southgate Green	58
4	Palmers Green	55
5	East Barnet	54
6	Oakleigh	45
7	Winchmore Hill	42
8	Brunswick Park	41
9	Cockfosters	40
10	Southgate	32
11	Highlands	28

Which road in Oakwood has the highest level of crime?

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