Crime Statistics for Camden Town, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Camden Town in September 2024. There were a total of 1930 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	350
Violent Crime	322
Theft From The Person	286
Shoplifting	248
Other Theft	206
Vehicle Crime	106
Drugs	105
Public Order	78
Criminal Damage Arson	69
Burglary	62
Robbery	55
Bicycle Theft	33
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	1930

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 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)	5452
Islington (1.24 miles)	3790
Lower Holloway (0.88 miles)	2632
Barnsbury (0.62 miles)	2373
Highbury (1.39 miles)	2371
Camden Town	1930
Kentish Town (0.62 miles)	1488
Maitland Park (0.62 miles)	1488
Gospel Oak (0.88 miles)	1400
Tufnell Park (0.62 miles)	1169

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	654
Islington	633
Highbury	575
Lower Holloway	564
Barnsbury	438
Tufnell Park	416
Camden Town	322
Kentish Town	241
Maitland Park	241
Gospel Oak	227

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.