Crime Statistics for Lower Holloway, London, Islington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Holloway in October 2024. There were a total of 2702 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 Lower Holloway, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime557
Anti Social Behaviour458
Theft From The Person281
Shoplifting276
Vehicle Crime235
Other Theft212
Public Order201
Bicycle Theft106
Burglary95
Robbery88
Criminal Damage Arson86
Drugs76
Other Crime21
Possession Of Weapons10
All Crime2702

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 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
Tufnell Park (0.62 miles)3554
Canonbury (1.39 miles)2817
Lower Holloway2571
Barnsbury (0.62 miles)2271
Islington (0.88 miles)2131
Kentish Town (1.39 miles)2118
Finsbury Park (0.62 miles)1916
Highbury (0.62 miles)1764
Camden Town (0.88 miles)1498
Gospel Oak (1.24 miles)1433

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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
Tufnell Park1215
Canonbury627
Lower Holloway557
Barnsbury526
Camden Town524
Kentish Town425
Islington402
Finsbury Park376
Highbury352
Gospel Oak246

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: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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