Crime Statistics for Lower Holloway, London, Islington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Holloway in September 2024. There were a total of 2807 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour575
Violent Crime564
Shoplifting371
Theft From The Person274
Vehicle Crime228
Other Theft214
Drugs140
Criminal Damage Arson100
Public Order91
Bicycle Theft78
Robbery74
Burglary74
Other Crime18
Possession Of Weapons6
All Crime2807

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 Lower Holloway. 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 Lower Holloway

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Islington (0.88 miles)3790
Canonbury (1.39 miles)3120
Lower Holloway2632
Barnsbury (0.62 miles)2373
Highbury (0.62 miles)2371
Finsbury Park (0.62 miles)1938
Camden Town (0.88 miles)1930
Kentish Town (1.39 miles)1488
Gospel Oak (1.24 miles)1400
Tufnell Park (0.62 miles)1169

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Where are the most violent places near Lower Holloway?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Canonbury654
Islington633
Highbury575
Lower Holloway564
Barnsbury438
Tufnell Park416
Finsbury Park362
Camden Town322
Kentish Town241
Gospel Oak227

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

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 Lower Holloway 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 Lower Holloway compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Holloway and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Holloway is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Junction88
2Haverstock82
3St George's80
4Camden Town with Primrose Hill76
5St Pancras and Somers Town75
6Highbury East74
7Holloway73
8Cantelowes72
9Caledonian69
10Kentish Town67
11Regent's Park52

Which road in Lower Holloway has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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