Crime Statistics for Barnes, London, Richmond Upon Thames, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barnes in September 2024. There were a total of 232 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	48
Violent Crime	45
Vehicle Crime	37
Other Theft	20
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Public Order	14
Burglary	13
Shoplifting	10
Bicycle Theft	9
Drugs	6
Robbery	4
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	232

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 Barnes. 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 Barnes

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hammersmith (1.86 miles)	1100
Parsons Green (1.86 miles)	975
Wandsworth (1.96 miles)	650
Bedford Park (1.96 miles)	649
Fulham (1.24 miles)	471
Chiswick (1.75 miles)	387
Kew (1.96 miles)	328
North Sheen (1.86 miles)	282
Barnes	232
Mortlake (1.39 miles)	191

Where are the most violent places near Barnes?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Parsons Green	319
Hammersmith	255
Wandsworth	162
Bedford Park	130
Chiswick	130
Fulham	100
Kew	89
North Sheen	65
Mortlake	48
Barnes	45

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

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 Barnes 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 Barnes compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barnes and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barnes is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Palace Riverside	64
2	Fulham Reach	58
3	North Richmond	58
4	Kew	56
5	Thamesfield	52
6	Munster	51
7	Mortlake and Barnes Common	51
8	West Putney	44
9	Barnes	43
10	East Sheen	38
11	East Putney	35

Which road in Barnes has the highest level of crime?

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