Crime and Safety in Childs Hill, Barnet
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Childs Hill are violence and sexual offences, with 274 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 20. This is 1.5% higher than 2025's figure of 270 offences and a difference of 0.26 from 2025's crime rate of 20. Childs Hill's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 5 offences recorded in 2026, the same as 2025's figure of 5 crimes.
Childs Hill 2026 Crime Scorecard
7% lower, borough crime rate
London
15% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Barnet is 7% lower than London and 15% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Barnet Crime Rate Over Time
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Childs Hill Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Childs Hill represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Childs Hill's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Childs Hill up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Childs Hill's 162 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
Childs Hill • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Childs Hill has a crime risk score of 484. This is based on analysis of 162 nearby areas within Childs Hill, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Childs Hill's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Childs Hill, crime risk scores are typically around 484, while in Barnet they are average 452.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 619 (546 for Barnet), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 696 (Barnet 588).
Trends in Crime Risk
Childs Hill
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates a decrease of 16% in Childs Hill's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Childs Hill's crime risk score is up by 4.4%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
Over the last year, Childs Hill's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 10%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Childs Hill
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Childs Hill • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Vehicle Crime offences have a crime rate of 8.57 reports per 1,000 people in Childs Hill, which is 1.99 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 117 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 69 reports of Burglary in Childs Hill, resulting in a crime rate of 5.05 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.61.
The crime rate for Theft From the Person is 1.52 times the national average at 2.14 reports per 1,000. This is from 29 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Childs Hill
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.25 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 1.77 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 29% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.90 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.58 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 55% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 0.38 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Childs Hill
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.75 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 2.00 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 38% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Childs Hill • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 250 | 18.31 | 1.30 | 8,780 | 20.12 | 1.42 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 5 | 0.35 | 1.25 | 198 | 0.46 | 0.63 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 69 | 5.05 | 1.61 | 2,065 | 4.73 | 1.51 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 50 | 3.67 | 0.58 | 1,936 | 4.45 | 0.71 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 48 | 3.51 | 1.23 | 1,945 | 4.45 | 1.44 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 8 | 0.58 | 0.63 | 405 | 0.93 | 0.50 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 76 | 5.55 | 0.98 | 2,511 | 5.76 | 1.01 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 7 | 0.51 | 1.42 | 186 | 0.43 | 0.51 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 42 | 3.11 | 0.54 | 1,893 | 4.35 | 0.75 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 10 | 0.74 | 1.28 | 784 | 1.81 | 1.53 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 102 | 7.46 | 1.05 | 3,054 | 6.99 | 0.98 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 29 | 2.14 | 1.52 | 962 | 2.20 | 1.42 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 117 | 8.57 | 1.99 | 3,855 | 8.82 | 2.05 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 274 | 20.07 | 0.66 | 8,968 | 20.55 | 0.68 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 837 | 61.31 | 0.89 | 28,762 | 65.93 | 0.92 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 957 | 70.58 | 0.98 | 27,870 | 64.93 | 0.88 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 884 | 66.51 | 0.91 | 27,970 | 66.58 | 0.88 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 834 | 63.87 | 0.85 | 27,199 | 65.93 | 0.83 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 770 | 60.17 | 0.84 | 26,939 | 65.75 | 0.86 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 793 | 62.90 | 0.99 | 26,060 | 63.38 | 0.92 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 805 | 64.08 | 0.94 | 28,253 | 68.71 | 0.93 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 894 | 71.42 | 1.01 | 28,722 | 69.79 | 0.92 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 781 | 62.47 | 0.97 | 26,405 | 64.44 | 0.91 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 779 | 62.34 | 1.08 | 24,965 | 61.28 | 0.96 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 238 | 19.04 | 1.06 | 8,183 | 20.08 | 1.05 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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