Crime Statistics for St Luke’s, City of London, Islington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Luke’s in August 2024. There were a total of 3704 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 St Luke’s, 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	748
Anti Social Behaviour	662
Theft From The Person	597
Other Theft	376
Shoplifting	314
Public Order	271
Drugs	188
Burglary	150
Criminal Damage Arson	139
Robbery	132
Bicycle Theft	62
Other Crime	26
Vehicle Crime	23
Possession Of Weapons	16
All Crime	3704

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes St Luke’s. 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 St Luke’s

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bloomsbury (1.24 miles)	5452
Finsbury (0.62 miles)	5012
Bethnal Green (1.24 miles)	4805
London (0.88 miles)	4590
St Pancras (1.24 miles)	3897
St Luke’s	3594
Canonbury (1.24 miles)	3120
Shoreditch	2939
Spitalfields (0.88 miles)	2046
Haggerston (0.88 miles)	1319

Where are the most violent places near St Luke’s?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
London	875
Bethnal Green	812
Finsbury	793
St Luke’s	748
Shoreditch	723
Bloomsbury	654
Canonbury	654
St Pancras	601
Haggerston	576
Spitalfields	355

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in St Luke’s?

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 St Luke’s 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 St Luke’s compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St Luke’s 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 St Luke’s has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in St Luke’s with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around White Lyon Court.