Crime Statistics for Canonbury, London, Islington, 2024

There were a total of 37 street level crime incidents in Canonbury in July 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	11
Violent Crime	8
Public Order	7
Other Theft	5
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	37

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Canonbury. 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 Canonbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shoreditch (1.24 miles)	1009
St Luke’s (1.24 miles)	791
Haggerston (0.88 miles)	290
Barnsbury (1.24 miles)	87
Islington (0.62 miles)	70
Lower Holloway (1.39 miles)	46
Canonbury	37
Highbury (0.88 miles)	34
Dalston (1.24 miles)	19
Hackney (1.24 miles)	19

Where are the most violent places near Canonbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shoreditch	231
St Luke’s	144
Haggerston	57
Barnsbury	16
Islington	15
Lower Holloway	13
Canonbury	8
Highbury	8
Dalston	4
Hackney	4

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

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 Canonbury 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 Canonbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Canonbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Canonbury is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Haggerston	86
2	De Beauvoir	80
3	Canonbury	80
4	Mildmay	79
5	St Peter's	79
6	St Mary's	79
7	Highbury East	74
8	King's Cross	72
9	Hoxton West	71
10	Caledonian	69
11	Barnsbury	64

Which road in Canonbury has the highest level of crime?

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