Crime Statistics for Ponders End, London, Enfield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ponders End in October 2024. There were a total of 718 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	186
Violent Crime	173
Vehicle Crime	67
Shoplifting	50
Drugs	47
Other Theft	39
Public Order	37
Burglary	30
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Theft From The Person	22
Robbery	15
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	8
Bicycle Theft	6
All Crime	718

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 Ponders End. 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 Ponders End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Edmonton (1.39 miles)	1024
Enfield Wash (1.86 miles)	1017
Brimsdown (1.39 miles)	750
Forty Hill (1.75 miles)	726
Ponders End	718
Enfield Highway (1.24 miles)	669
Enfield (1.39 miles)	403
Bush Hill Park (1.24 miles)	364
Enfield Town (1.96 miles)	334
Chingford Green (1.96 miles)	283

Where are the most violent places near Ponders End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Edmonton	235
Enfield Wash	222
Brimsdown	179
Ponders End	173
Forty Hill	142
Enfield	141
Enfield Highway	137
Bush Hill Park	86
Enfield Town	62
Chingford Green	55

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

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 Ponders End 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 Ponders End compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ponders End and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ponders End is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Edmonton Green	82
2	Ponders End	74
3	Enfield Highway	70
4	Lower Edmonton	70
5	Jubilee	69
6	Valley	69
7	Southbury	64
8	Endlebury	55
9	Bush Hill Park	47
10	Town	40
11	Grange	37

Which road in Ponders End has the highest level of crime?

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