Palmers Green is safe, and safer than the borough around it. Its crime rate runs nearly a third below the Enfield average. Violence makes up a smaller share of crime than it does nationally. Parked cars and front doors take more of the trouble than people do. For a crowded corner of north London, that is a good result.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 3,539 crimes in Palmers Green in the year to May 2026, which the published figures put at a rate of about 78 per 1,000 residents. That rate is roughly 30% below the average for the London Borough of Enfield.
Set the two rates side by side and the gap is plain: about 78 crimes per 1,000 residents in Palmers Green against about 113 across Enfield as a whole. A buyer weighing Palmers Green against the borough average is weighing it against somewhere with more crime.
The area that produces those numbers is busy. Palmers Green averages nearly 9,000 residents per square kilometre, about 5% of working-age residents are unemployed, and about 12% of households live in overcrowded homes, all from the 2021 Census. That is a lot of people in a small patch of suburb, and its crime rate still comes in under the borough's.
The mix is where Palmers Green looks different. Violence and sexual offences, the broad category that includes common assault without injury and leads the count almost everywhere, make up about 26% of local crime against about 35% nationally. Anti-social behaviour is about 21% here against 16% nationally. Vehicle crime is about 15% against 5%, and burglary about 7% against 4%. Other theft, at about 8% against 7%, and drugs, at about 5% against 4%, run close to the national pattern. Crime here leans towards property and away from people. When choosing between two houses, ask whether either has somewhere off the road to leave the car, because that is the part of the record a buyer can actually do something about.
What happens after a report is a force-wide matter. The Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces. About 53% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those are figures for the whole of the Metropolitan Police area, and they measure how often a crime gets solved, which is a separate question from how often one happens in Palmers Green. On that measure the lock on the door does more work than the follow-up.
Safety is one of Palmers Green's real strengths, with less crime than the borough average and less violence than the national pattern. The main thing to guard is property.