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Barnet Open Data

Crime

Last Updated: September 2026

Community safety is a key priority in Barnet. The crime dashboard provides insights into patterns of criminal activity across the borough, benchmarked against London and England averages where possible.

Headline Figures

  • Between 2023-2025, anti-social behaviour was the most prevalent type of crime in Barnet, with a rate of 20.6 per 1,000 residents. This is lower than the London average (25.1 per 1,000) but higher than the England average (14.6 per 1,000).

  • Between July 2024- July 2026, the ward with the highest average number of crimes was West Hendon at 15.3 per month whilst the ward with the lowest average number of crimes was Edgwarebury at 4.8 per month.

  • In 2024/25, Barnet had a Crime Severity Score of 2.4 – this is lower than both England (2.7) and lower than London (3.4).

Narrative

  • Between 2023-2025, anti-social behaviour was the most prevalent type of crime in Barnet, with a rate of 20.6 per 1,000 residents. This is lower than the London average (25.1 per 1,000) but higher than the England average (14.6 per 1,000).

  • Between July 2024- July 2026, the ward with the highest average number of crimes was West Hendon at 15.3 per month whilst the ward with the lowest average number of crimes was Edgwarebury at 4.8 per month.

  • The highest ranking ward varies by crime type - for example, Colindale South has highest average number of Antisocial Behaviour crimes (52.2 average per month), Hendon the highest average Criminal Damage and Arson crimes (10 average per month), and Burnt Oak the highest average number of Robbery crimes (5.6 average per month) in the period July 2024 - July 2026.

  • At the street level, streets on or near supermarkets were hotspots for crimes between July 2024 - July 2026. Such streets in Hendon recorded the highest number of crimes in 2026.

  • Between 2002 and 202025, when crimes were weighted by their severity, Barnet's score of 2.3 was overall similar to the England average (2.2) and lower than the London average (3.0) between 2002 and 2025. Most recently in 2024-25, Barnet's Crime Severity Score of 2.4 was lower than both England (2.7) and London (3.4).

  • Women made up 93% of domestic violence reports in 2023/24, and on average the number of reports was highest in Burnt Oak.

  • West Hendon (20.6 times per month on average) and Childs Hill (19.3 times per month on average) were the wards with the highest average number of violent crimes, including domestic abuse, hate crime, miscellaneous crime, and gun crime, between April 2018 and March 2026.

  • Throughout all periods from 2012 to 2022, the number of hospital admissions for assault by sharp object in Barent (26 admissions per year on average) was mostly lower than the London average (32.1 admissions), except for 2015-16 (35 admissions) and 2018-19 (40 admissions).

  • Between August 2022 and July 2026, knife crimes were highest in 2023 on average, and most prevalent in November of each year. At the ward-level, Burnt Oak has the highest average number of recorded knife crimes a year at 50.8, and Totteridge & Woodside the lowest at an average of 7 per year.

  • In 2025/26, crimes on public transport in London most commonly took place on the Underground (254 per million journeys), followed by the Overground (155 per million journeys). Compared to 2024/25, transport crime rate increased by an average of 6% across all transport types in 2025/26.

  • The average rate of business crime in Barnet between 2022 and 2026 was 40.8 per 1,000, which is just below the London average of 42.5 per 1,000. Theft and handling was the most common types of business crime in Barnet in 2026, followed by Violence against a Person.

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