Crime Statistics for Barnsbury, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barnsbury in October 2024. There were a total of 2635 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Theft From The Person.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Barnsbury, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	526
Theft From The Person	480
Other Theft	338
Anti Social Behaviour	292
Shoplifting	193
Vehicle Crime	156
Public Order	156
Drugs	101
Criminal Damage Arson	100
Burglary	94
Robbery	90
Bicycle Theft	76
Other Crime	24
Possession Of Weapons	9
All Crime	2635

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Pancras (1.24 miles)	12858
Tufnell Park (0.88 miles)	3554
Canonbury (1.24 miles)	2817
Lower Holloway (0.62 miles)	2571
Barnsbury	2271
Islington (0.62 miles)	2131
Kentish Town (1.24 miles)	2118
Highbury (0.88 miles)	1764
Maitland Park (1.24 miles)	1521
Camden Town (0.62 miles)	1498

Where are the most violent places near Barnsbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Pancras	1424
Tufnell Park	1215
Canonbury	627
Lower Holloway	557
Barnsbury	526
Camden Town	524
Kentish Town	425
Islington	402
Highbury	352
Maitland Park	257

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

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 Barnsbury 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 Barnsbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Haverstock	82
2	St Mary's	79
3	Camden Town with Primrose Hill	76
4	St Pancras and Somers Town	75
5	Holloway	73
6	Cantelowes	72
7	King's Cross	72
8	Caledonian	69
9	Barnsbury	64
10	Bloomsbury	59
11	Regent's Park	52

Which road in Barnsbury has the highest level of crime?

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