So you are thinking of moving to Barnet in Hertfordshire? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Barnet is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Barnet the land of milk and honey or are Borehamwood, Elstree and Potters Bar a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Barnet
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Barnet. Naturally the more urban and more central areas will have a higher rate of crime, but often you can be surprised when that is not the case and that is the area you want to move to.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Potters Bar | 43 |
| Monken Hadley | 32 |
| Shenleybury | 13 |
| Shenley | 9 |
| Brookmans Park | 6 |
| Bell Bar | 5 |
| South Mimms | 3 |
| Bullen’s Green | 2 |
| Bentley Heath | 2 |
| Dancers Hill | 1 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Barnet. These statitics are published by the government every 2-3 years. They are a measure of how likely you are to be a victim of personal or material crime in an area, such as muggings or burglary. We've collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Barnet. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Potters Bar Oakmere (Best) | 10688/32845 |
| Borehamwood Hillside | 12280/32845 |
| Shenley | 13389/32845 |
| Welham Green and Hatfield South | 13897/32845 |
| High Barnet | 14954/32845 |
| Borehamwood Kenilworth | 17113/32845 |
| Bentley Heath & The Royds | 17283/32845 |
| Potters Bar Parkfield | 17478/32845 |
| Potters Bar Furzefield | 21944/32845 |
| Borehamwood Cowley Hill (Worst) | 8330/32845 |
Borehamwood - A symptom of our times
Your Health in Barnet
If you are thinking of moving to Barnet, you want to know if the place is likely to put you on a downward spiral of ill health. We've taken the healh question from the latest census to find out and how Barnet compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnet | 1.14% | 3.42% | 10.99% | 32.97% | 51.48% |
| Hertsmere (Barnet) | 0.94% | 3.21% | 11.43% | 32.88% | 51.54% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Barnet. They measures the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health, lovely! We've collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Barnet. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Borehamwood Cowley Hill (Best) | 13106/32845 |
| Borehamwood Hillside | 19576/32845 |
| Welham Green and Hatfield South | 19601/32845 |
| Borehamwood Kenilworth | 21400/32845 |
| Potters Bar Oakmere | 21846/32845 |
| Bentley Heath & The Royds | 25216/32845 |
| Shenley | 25385/32845 |
| Potters Bar Parkfield | 25649/32845 |
| Potters Bar Furzefield | 27492/32845 |
| High Barnet (Worst) | 29986/32845 |
Watford - Every day is the day of the living dead
Deprivation in Barnet
Using the English Indices of Deprivation statistics, we've collated the average Index of Multiple Deprivation rank of all the LSOAs in the wards in and around Barnet. In layman's terms, this is how rough the ward is based on mutiple measures of deprivation including; employment, income, health, crime, housing and outside space.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Borehamwood Cowley Hill (Best) | 10331/32845 |
| Potters Bar Oakmere | 15862/32845 |
| Borehamwood Hillside | 17497/32845 |
| Borehamwood Kenilworth | 17526/32845 |
| Welham Green and Hatfield South | 17738/32845 |
| Shenley | 19718/32845 |
| Bentley Heath & The Royds | 21175/32845 |
| Potters Bar Parkfield | 23720/32845 |
| High Barnet | 23913/32845 |
| Potters Bar Furzefield (Worst) | 25033/32845 |
