Crime Statistics for Finsbury, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Finsbury in August 2024. There were a total of 5014 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Theft From The Person.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	1180
Theft From The Person	1046
Violent Crime	793
Other Theft	512
Public Order	324
Shoplifting	312
Robbery	200
Burglary	174
Criminal Damage Arson	170
Drugs	136
Vehicle Crime	66
Bicycle Theft	66
Other Crime	19
Possession Of Weapons	16
All Crime	5014

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bloomsbury (0.62 miles)	5452
Finsbury	5012
London (0.62 miles)	4590
Holborn (0.88 miles)	3935
St Pancras (0.62 miles)	3897
St Luke’s (0.62 miles)	3594
Shoreditch (0.62 miles)	2939
Spitalfields (1.39 miles)	2046
Islington (1.24 miles)	1349
Haggerston (1.39 miles)	1319

Where are the most violent places near Finsbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
London	875
Finsbury	793
St Luke’s	748
Shoreditch	723
Bloomsbury	654
Holborn	619
St Pancras	601
Haggerston	576
Spitalfields	355
Islington	300

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

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 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 compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	King's Cross	72
2	Clerkenwell	66
3	Bunhill	52
4	Holborn and Covent Garden	43
5	St James's	35
6	Cripplegate	5
7	Farringdon Within	1

Which road in Finsbury has the highest level of crime?

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