Crime Statistics for Enfield Town, London, Enfield, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Enfield Town in September 2024. There were a total of 307 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 Enfield Town, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime78
Anti Social Behaviour75
Vehicle Crime39
Other Theft28
Criminal Damage Arson19
Burglary14
Robbery12
Drugs12
Public Order11
Shoplifting7
Theft From The Person7
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime307

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 Enfield Town. 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 Enfield Town

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Enfield Highway (1.96 miles)1219
Ponders End (1.96 miles)760
Forty Hill (0.88 miles)572
Enfield (0.62 miles)516
Southgate (1.75 miles)422
Bush Hill Park (0.88 miles)364
Enfield Town307
Grange Park (0.88 miles)284
Oakwood (1.96 miles)243
Crews Hill (1.96 miles)61

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Where are the most violent places near Enfield Town?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Enfield Highway304
Ponders End166
Forty Hill123
Enfield102
Bush Hill Park86
Enfield Town78
Grange Park73
Southgate56
Oakwood56
Crews Hill25

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

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 Enfield Town 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 Enfield Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Enfield Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Enfield Town have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Jubilee.

#WardScore
1Jubilee69
2Southbury64
3Palmers Green55
4Chase55
5Bush Hill Park47
6Winchmore Hill42
7Cockfosters40
8Town40
9Grange37
10Southgate32
11Highlands28

Which road in Enfield Town has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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