Wood Green is about as safe as the rest of its borough, a little busier on the crime sheet and no more. The rate runs slightly above the Haringey average. The gap is small. What stands out is where crime happens, not how much of it there is. This is a shopping district, and the crime reflects it.
The Metropolitan Police recorded about 8,900 crimes across Wood Green in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 146 per 1,000 residents. That puts it roughly 8% above the average for Haringey.
Set side by side, Haringey as a whole runs at about 135 crimes per 1,000 residents and Wood Green at about 146. A gap of eleven or so per thousand is the difference between a borough and its main shopping centre, and anyone hoping to find a dramatic story in it will have to bring their own.
Wood Green is packed in, at about 13,600 people per square kilometre on average. About 5% of working-age residents were unemployed at the last census and about 15% of households were overcrowded. Those numbers describe a busy, crowded inner-suburban district. None of them explains the crime rate on its own, and anyone building a theory from them is working without evidence.
The mix is where Wood Green earns its reputation. Violence and sexual offences are the largest category, at about 26% of recorded crime, though that is lower than the national share of about 35%, and the category covers everything from serious assault down to common assault without injury. Anti-social behaviour makes up about 21% here against 16% nationally. Shoplifting is about 9% against 8%, and other theft is about 7% against a national 7%, close enough to call level. Two categories run well ahead. Vehicle crime is about 8% against 5% nationally, and about half of households here have no car, which leaves the other half wondering who got the better deal. Theft from the person is about 7% here against about 2% nationally. Funnel a borough's shopping trip down one High Road between two Tube stations and that is the category it shows up in. The police's street-level crime map lets you look at the few streets around a particular home, and in Wood Green the High Road and the side streets two minutes away tell different stories.
What happens after a report is a separate question. The Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, putting it 33rd of 42 forces. About 53% of its cases close with no suspect identified at all. Those are force-wide figures covering the whole of London, so they describe the Met's caseload and say nothing about whether Wood Green is safe. They do tell you what to expect if a phone goes missing outside the Mall.
Wood Green is middling on safety, a busy borough centre whose crime is concentrated in its shopping streets and not on the doorsteps of the roads behind them.