Crime Statistics for Holborn, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holborn in September 2024. There were a total of 5712 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	1926
Other Theft	1158
Violent Crime	739
Shoplifting	407
Anti Social Behaviour	291
Robbery	263
Public Order	263
Vehicle Crime	185
Drugs	124
Burglary	121
Criminal Damage Arson	107
Bicycle Theft	86
Other Crime	26
Possession Of Weapons	16
All Crime	5712

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 Holborn. 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 Holborn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Pancras (0.62 miles)	8871
Bloomsbury (0.62 miles)	5452
Holborn	5185
Strand (0.62 miles)	5065
Marylebone (1.24 miles)	5010
St Luke’s (1.39 miles)	3707
Finsbury (0.88 miles)	3542
London (0.62 miles)	3001
Shoreditch (1.39 miles)	2323
St James (0.88 miles)	1025

Where are the most violent places near Holborn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Pancras	1228
London	808
Holborn	739
Marylebone	675
Strand	659
Bloomsbury	654
St Luke’s	606
St James	599
Finsbury	455
Shoreditch	328

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

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 Holborn 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 Holborn compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	King's Cross	72
2	Clerkenwell	66
3	Bloomsbury	59
4	West End	59
5	Bishop's	55
6	Holborn and Covent Garden	43
7	St James's	35
8	Marylebone High Street	30

Which road in Holborn has the highest level of crime?

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