Friern Barnet
WardEast Barnet. About 19,598 people in 2.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Friern Barnet live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Friern Barnet compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Friern Barnet safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Friern Barnet at a rate of 88.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.0 per 1,000 people across Barnet.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 152 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Friern Barnet.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (468), anti-social behaviour (335) and vehicle crime (275).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Barnet
These figures are published for the whole of Barnet, not for each ward, so they describe all of Barnet and not Friern Barnet alone. See Barnet
Friern Barnet in brief
Friern Barnet had 19,452 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Friern Barnet live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Friern Barnet, 80.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Friern Barnet, 5.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.