Crime Statistics for Canonbury, London, Islington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Canonbury in October 2024. There were a total of 2670 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 Canonbury, 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	627
Anti Social Behaviour	467
Theft From The Person	350
Shoplifting	188
Public Order	176
Vehicle Crime	172
Other Theft	163
Bicycle Theft	114
Criminal Damage Arson	108
Drugs	98
Burglary	94
Robbery	81
Other Crime	23
Possession Of Weapons	9
All Crime	2670

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 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
Hackney (1.24 miles)	3267
Canonbury	2817
St Luke’s (1.24 miles)	2784
Shoreditch (1.24 miles)	2784
Lower Holloway (1.39 miles)	2571
Barnsbury (1.24 miles)	2271
Islington (0.62 miles)	2131
Dalston (1.24 miles)	2036
Highbury (0.88 miles)	1764
Haggerston (0.88 miles)	50

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
Hackney	690
Canonbury	627
Lower Holloway	557
Barnsbury	526
St Luke’s	458
Shoreditch	458
Islington	402
Dalston	373
Highbury	352
Haggerston	31

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.