Crime Statistics for Holborn, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holborn in October 2024. There were a total of 13795 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	5174
Other Theft	3044
Violent Crime	1421
Anti Social Behaviour	1180
Shoplifting	718
Robbery	534
Public Order	424
Vehicle Crime	366
Burglary	270
Criminal Damage Arson	232
Drugs	188
Bicycle Theft	182
Other Crime	38
Possession Of Weapons	24
All Crime	13795

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 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
Bloomsbury (0.62 miles)	13053
Holborn	13008
St Pancras (0.62 miles)	12858
St James (0.88 miles)	10640
London (0.62 miles)	10372
Marylebone (1.24 miles)	5892
Strand (0.62 miles)	4840
Finsbury (0.88 miles)	4617
St Luke’s (1.39 miles)	2784
Shoreditch (1.39 miles)	2784

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	1424
Holborn	1421
Bloomsbury	1412
London	1236
St James	1215
Strand	872
Marylebone	753
Finsbury	551
St Luke’s	458
Shoreditch	458

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.