Crime Statistics for Canonbury, London, Islington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Canonbury in September 2024. There were a total of 3273 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	660
Violent Crime	654
Other Theft	352
Theft From The Person	314
Shoplifting	280
Vehicle Crime	173
Burglary	170
Criminal Damage Arson	142
Public Order	142
Bicycle Theft	128
Drugs	126
Robbery	82
Other Crime	40
Possession Of Weapons	10
All Crime	3273

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 Canonbury. 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 Canonbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Haggerston (0.88 miles)	3969
Islington (0.62 miles)	3790
St Luke’s (1.24 miles)	3707
Canonbury	3120
Lower Holloway (1.39 miles)	2632
Barnsbury (1.24 miles)	2373
Highbury (0.88 miles)	2371
Shoreditch (1.24 miles)	2323
Dalston (1.24 miles)	1824
Hackney (1.24 miles)	1762

Where are the most violent places near Canonbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Haggerston	687
Canonbury	654
Islington	633
St Luke’s	606
Highbury	575
Lower Holloway	564
Barnsbury	438
Dalston	377
Hackney	377
Shoreditch	328

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

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 Canonbury 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 Canonbury compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Haggerston	86
2	De Beauvoir	80
3	Canonbury	80
4	Mildmay	79
5	St Peter's	79
6	St Mary's	79
7	Highbury East	74
8	King's Cross	72
9	Hoxton West	71
10	Caledonian	69
11	Barnsbury	64

Which road in Canonbury has the highest level of crime?

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