Crime Statistics for Southgate, London, Enfield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southgate in October 2024. There were a total of 462 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	139
Anti Social Behaviour	70
Violent Crime	65
Vehicle Crime	59
Other Theft	25
Burglary	24
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Theft From The Person	15
Public Order	15
Drugs	11
Robbery	8
Other Crime	6
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	462

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 Southgate. 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 Southgate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bowes Park (1.86 miles)	836
Friern Barnet (1.75 miles)	733
Brunswick Park (1.39 miles)	626
Palmers Green (0.62 miles)	615
Southgate	462
New Southgate (1.39 miles)	414
Bush Hill Park (1.96 miles)	364
Enfield Town (1.75 miles)	334
Oakwood (0.88 miles)	273
Grange Park (0.88 miles)	187

Where are the most violent places near Southgate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Friern Barnet	292
Bowes Park	182
Brunswick Park	133
Palmers Green	91
Bush Hill Park	86
New Southgate	77
Southgate	65
Oakwood	65
Enfield Town	62
Grange Park	34

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

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 Southgate 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 Southgate compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Southgate and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Southgate have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is White Hart Lane.

#	Ward	Score
1	White Hart Lane	88
2	Upper Edmonton	75
3	Bounds Green	68
4	Haselbury	66
5	Bowes	60
6	Southgate Green	58
7	Palmers Green	55
8	Winchmore Hill	42
9	Brunswick Park	41
10	Cockfosters	40
11	Southgate	32

Which road in Southgate has the highest level of crime?

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