Crime Statistics for Gospel Oak, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gospel Oak in October 2024. There were a total of 1433 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gospel Oak, 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	246
Anti Social Behaviour	234
Theft From The Person	191
Shoplifting	152
Other Theft	119
Vehicle Crime	103
Public Order	83
Burglary	80
Bicycle Theft	59
Drugs	55
Robbery	52
Criminal Damage Arson	49
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1433

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 Gospel Oak. 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 Gospel Oak

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tufnell Park (0.62 miles)	3554
Lower Holloway (1.24 miles)	2571
Kentish Town (0.62 miles)	2118
Finsbury Park (1.39 miles)	1916
Hampstead (1.24 miles)	1681
Maitland Park (0.62 miles)	1521
Camden Town (0.88 miles)	1498
Gospel Oak	1433
South Hampstead (1.39 miles)	1261
Highgate (1.24 miles)	593

Where are the most violent places near Gospel Oak?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tufnell Park	1215
Lower Holloway	557
Camden Town	524
Kentish Town	425
Finsbury Park	376
Hampstead	366
Maitland Park	257
Gospel Oak	246
South Hampstead	220
Highgate	134

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

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 Gospel Oak 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 Gospel Oak compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gospel Oak and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Gospel Oak is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Haverstock	82
2	Camden Town with Primrose Hill	76
3	Highgate	73
4	Cantelowes	72
5	Kentish Town	67
6	Gospel Oak	64
7	Belsize	58
8	Swiss Cottage	54
9	Regent's Park	52
10	Hampstead Town	40
11	Frognal and Fitzjohns	34

Which road in Gospel Oak has the highest level of crime?

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