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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barnes in October 2024. There were a total of 284 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 Barnes, 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	57
Anti Social Behaviour	52
Vehicle Crime	52
Burglary	26
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Bicycle Theft	17
Other Theft	13
Drugs	13
Public Order	10
Shoplifting	9
Robbery	6
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	284

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 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)	1970
Bedford Park (1.96 miles)	1305
Chiswick (1.75 miles)	927
Parsons Green (1.86 miles)	844
Wandsworth (1.96 miles)	690
North Sheen (1.86 miles)	680
Kew (1.96 miles)	635
Fulham (1.24 miles)	494
Mortlake (1.39 miles)	414
Barnes	156

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
Hammersmith	540
North Sheen	279
Bedford Park	258
Parsons Green	255
Chiswick	153
Kew	151
Wandsworth	147
Mortlake	114
Fulham	109
Barnes	57

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 Halcyon Close.