Crime Statistics for Kentish Town, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kentish Town in September 2024. There were a total of 1488 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	259
Violent Crime	241
Shoplifting	228
Theft From The Person	200
Other Theft	116
Vehicle Crime	88
Drugs	80
Public Order	70
Criminal Damage Arson	61
Burglary	55
Robbery	50
Bicycle Theft	29
Other Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	1488

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 Kentish Town. 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 Kentish Town

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Regent’s Park (1.24 miles)	2991
Lower Holloway (1.39 miles)	2632
Barnsbury (1.24 miles)	2373
Camden Town (0.62 miles)	1930
St John’s Wood (1.39 miles)	1880
Kentish Town	1488
Maitland Park	1488
Gospel Oak (0.62 miles)	1400
Tufnell Park (0.88 miles)	1169
South Hampstead (1.24 miles)	1084

Where are the most violent places near Kentish Town?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Holloway	564
St John’s Wood	459
Barnsbury	438
Tufnell Park	416
Regent’s Park	358
Camden Town	322
Kentish Town	241
Maitland Park	241
Gospel Oak	227
South Hampstead	169

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

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 Kentish Town 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 Kentish Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kentish Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Kentish Town have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Marylebone High Street.

#	Ward	Score
1	Haverstock	82
2	Camden Town with Primrose Hill	76
3	Cantelowes	72
4	Gospel Oak	64
5	Bloomsbury	59
6	Belsize	58
7	Bryanston and Dorset Square	57
8	Swiss Cottage	54
9	Regent's Park	52
10	Regent's Park	42
11	Marylebone High Street	30

Which road in Kentish Town has the highest level of crime?

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