Crime Statistics for Camden Town, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Camden Town in October 2024. There were a total of 2822 incidents. 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	539
Violent Crime	524
Other Theft	388
Anti Social Behaviour	352
Shoplifting	246
Public Order	184
Vehicle Crime	181
Robbery	114
Burglary	70
Criminal Damage Arson	65
Drugs	63
Bicycle Theft	56
Other Crime	28
Possession Of Weapons	12
All Crime	2822

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 Camden 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 Camden Town

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bloomsbury (1.39 miles)	13053
Tufnell Park (0.62 miles)	3554
Lower Holloway (0.88 miles)	2571
Barnsbury (0.62 miles)	2271
Islington (1.24 miles)	2131
Kentish Town (0.62 miles)	2118
Highbury (1.39 miles)	1764
Maitland Park (0.62 miles)	1521
Camden Town	1498
Gospel Oak (0.88 miles)	1433

Where are the most violent places near Camden Town?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bloomsbury	1412
Tufnell Park	1215
Lower Holloway	557
Barnsbury	526
Camden Town	524
Kentish Town	425
Islington	402
Highbury	352
Maitland Park	257
Gospel Oak	246

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Camden 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 Camden 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 Camden Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Camden Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Camden Town is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Haverstock	82
2	Camden Town with Primrose Hill	76
3	St Pancras and Somers Town	75
4	Holloway	73
5	Cantelowes	72
6	King's Cross	72
7	Caledonian	69
8	Kentish Town	67
9	Bloomsbury	59
10	Regent's Park	52
11	Marylebone High Street	30

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

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