Crime Statistics for Islington, London, , 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Islington in October 2024. There were a total of 2131 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	434
Violent Crime	402
Theft From The Person	247
Other Theft	237
Shoplifting	164
Vehicle Crime	130
Public Order	118
Criminal Damage Arson	93
Burglary	77
Drugs	73
Bicycle Theft	66
Robbery	64
Other Crime	21
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	2131

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 Islington. 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 Islington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bloomsbury (1.39 miles)	13053
Finsbury (1.24 miles)	4617
Tufnell Park (1.39 miles)	3554
Canonbury (0.62 miles)	2817
Lower Holloway (0.88 miles)	2571
Barnsbury (0.62 miles)	2271
Islington	2131
Highbury (0.62 miles)	1764
Camden Town (1.24 miles)	1498
Haggerston (1.39 miles)	50

Where are the most violent places near Islington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bloomsbury	1412
Tufnell Park	1215
Canonbury	627
Lower Holloway	557
Finsbury	551
Barnsbury	526
Camden Town	524
Islington	402
Highbury	352
Haggerston	31

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

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 Islington 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 Islington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Islington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Islington is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Canonbury	80
2	St Peter's	79
3	St Mary's	79
4	St Pancras and Somers Town	75
5	Highbury East	74
6	Holloway	73
7	Cantelowes	72
8	King's Cross	72
9	Caledonian	69
10	Clerkenwell	66
11	Barnsbury	64

Which road in Islington has the highest level of crime?

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