Crime Statistics for Finsbury, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Finsbury in October 2024. There were a total of 4617 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Theft From The Person, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Theft From The Person	1506
Other Theft	925
Violent Crime	551
Anti Social Behaviour	513
Shoplifting	284
Public Order	175
Robbery	135
Vehicle Crime	115
Burglary	109
Criminal Damage Arson	97
Drugs	88
Bicycle Theft	83
Other Crime	25
Possession Of Weapons	11
All Crime	4617

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 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)	13053
Holborn (0.88 miles)	13008
St Pancras (0.62 miles)	12858
London (0.62 miles)	10372
Finsbury	4617
Spitalfields (1.39 miles)	3003
St Luke’s (0.62 miles)	2784
Shoreditch (0.62 miles)	2784
Islington (1.24 miles)	2131
Haggerston (1.39 miles)	50

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
St Pancras	1424
Holborn	1421
Bloomsbury	1412
London	1236
Finsbury	551
Spitalfields	466
St Luke’s	458
Shoreditch	458
Islington	402
Haggerston	31

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.