Crime Statistics for London, City of London, City of Westminster, 2024

There were a total of 660 street level crime incidents in London in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Theft From The Person, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Theft From The Person	238
Violent Crime	105
Other Theft	97
Public Order	58
Shoplifting	49
Drugs	21
Anti Social Behaviour	19
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Robbery	16
Bicycle Theft	13
Burglary	12
Other Crime	9
Vehicle Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	660

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes London. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to London

We've taken the ten nearest places to London and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if London has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Spitalfields (1.24 miles)	926
St Luke’s (0.88 miles)	860
Shoreditch (0.88 miles)	860
Finsbury (0.62 miles)	777
St Pancras (0.88 miles)	771
Bloomsbury (0.88 miles)	771
London	660
Holborn (0.62 miles)	452
St James (1.39 miles)	326
Strand (0.88 miles)	290

Where are the most violent places near London?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to London and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Spitalfields	171
St Luke’s	149
Shoreditch	149
Finsbury	124
St Pancras	123
Bloomsbury	123
London	105
Holborn	60
St James	48
Strand	45

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in London?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in London to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in London compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to London and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. London is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bishop's	55
2	Bunhill	52
3	Holborn and Covent Garden	43
4	St James's	35
5	Farringdon Within	1
6	Cheap	0

Which road in London has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in London with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.

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