Crime Statistics for Finsbury Park, London, Islington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Finsbury Park in September 2024. There were a total of 1938 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	583
Violent Crime	362
Shoplifting	197
Vehicle Crime	150
Theft From The Person	126
Other Theft	124
Public Order	78
Burglary	76
Criminal Damage Arson	73
Drugs	72
Bicycle Theft	43
Robbery	38
Possession Of Weapons	9
Other Crime	7
All Crime	1938

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Holloway (0.62 miles)	2632
Barnsbury (1.24 miles)	2373
Highbury (0.88 miles)	2371
Finsbury Park	1938
Gospel Oak (1.39 miles)	1400
Harringay (1.39 miles)	1189
Tufnell Park (0.88 miles)	1169
Hornsey Vale (1.24 miles)	1027
Crouch End (1.39 miles)	801
Highgate (1.39 miles)	745

Where are the most violent places near Finsbury Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Highbury	575
Lower Holloway	564
Barnsbury	438
Tufnell Park	416
Finsbury Park	362
Harringay	233
Gospel Oak	227
Hornsey Vale	184
Highgate	169
Crouch End	149

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

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 Finsbury Park 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 Finsbury Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Finsbury Park	89
2	Junction	88
3	Tollington	83
4	St George's	80
5	Brownswood	75
6	Hillrise	75
7	Highgate	73
8	Holloway	73
9	Cantelowes	72
10	Kentish Town	67
11	Highbury West	64

Which road in Finsbury Park has the highest level of crime?

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