Crime Statistics for Southgate, London, Enfield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southgate in September 2024. There were a total of 422 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	158
Violent Crime	56
Anti Social Behaviour	55
Vehicle Crime	49
Burglary	23
Other Theft	23
Robbery	13
Public Order	12
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Theft From The Person	10
Drugs	7
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	422

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 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)	1052
Palmers Green (0.62 miles)	865
New Southgate (1.39 miles)	437
Southgate	422
Friern Barnet (1.75 miles)	391
Brunswick Park (1.39 miles)	357
Bush Hill Park (1.96 miles)	354
Enfield Town (1.75 miles)	307
Grange Park (0.88 miles)	284
Oakwood (0.88 miles)	243

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
Bowes Park	297
Palmers Green	167
New Southgate	105
Bush Hill Park	104
Friern Barnet	97
Brunswick Park	84
Enfield Town	78
Grange Park	73
Southgate	56
Oakwood	56

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.