Crime Statistics for Shoreditch, City of London, Islington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shoreditch in October 2024. There were a total of 2784 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Theft From The Person, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Theft From The Person	542
Violent Crime	458
Other Theft	451
Anti Social Behaviour	368
Shoplifting	275
Public Order	152
Burglary	113
Drugs	96
Criminal Damage Arson	84
Bicycle Theft	76
Robbery	68
Vehicle Crime	64
Other Crime	22
Possession Of Weapons	15
All Crime	2784

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 Shoreditch. 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 Shoreditch

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bloomsbury (1.24 miles)	13053
St Pancras (1.24 miles)	12858
London (0.88 miles)	10372
Finsbury (0.62 miles)	4617
Bethnal Green (1.24 miles)	3045
Spitalfields (0.88 miles)	3003
Canonbury (1.24 miles)	2817
St Luke’s	2784
Shoreditch	2784
Haggerston (0.88 miles)	50

Where are the most violent places near Shoreditch?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Pancras	1424
Bloomsbury	1412
London	1236
Canonbury	627
Bethnal Green	575
Finsbury	551
Spitalfields	466
St Luke’s	458
Shoreditch	458
Haggerston	31

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

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 Shoreditch 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 Shoreditch compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bunhill	52
2	Holborn and Covent Garden	43
3	Cripplegate	5
4	Farringdon Within	1
5	Coleman Street	1
6	Cheap	0

Which road in Shoreditch has the highest level of crime?

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