Crime Statistics for Barkingside, London, Redbridge, 2025

Is Barkingside rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 726 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 Barkingside, 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	214
Anti Social Behaviour	132
Vehicle Crime	77
Shoplifting	66
Other Theft	54
Burglary	46
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Drugs	26
Public Order	25
Robbery	18
Theft From The Person	16
Other Crime	10
Bicycle Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	726

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Barkingside. 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 Barkingside

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newbury Park (0.62 miles)	1434
Ilford (1.86 miles)	943
Aldborough Hatch (0.62 miles)	636
Barkingside	555
Little Heath (1.96 miles)	485
Cranbrook (1.75 miles)	431
Fairlop (0.88 miles)	300
Fullwell Cross (0.62 miles)	287
Hainault (1.39 miles)	259
Grange Hill (1.86 miles)	178

Where are the most violent places near Barkingside?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newbury Park	780
Ilford	257
Aldborough Hatch	252
Barkingside	214
Little Heath	151
Fairlop	111
Cranbrook	92
Fullwell Cross	84
Hainault	69
Grange Hill	49

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

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 Barkingside 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 Barkingside compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ilford Town	82
2	Goodmayes	76
3	Seven Kings	70
4	Valentines	68
5	Cranbrook	64
6	Fairlop	61
7	Aldborough	59
8	Clayhall	56
9	Fullwell	55
10	Barkingside	54
11	Newbury	50

Which road in Barkingside has the highest level of crime?

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