Crime in London
Thinking about London? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of London, Greater London, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try reading, brighton, cambridge too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near London centre
3,777crimes recorded in September 2026
- Other theft 824
- Theft from the person 667
- Violence & sexual offences 595
- Shoplifting 535
- 10 other categories 1,156
Every category
- Other theft824
- Theft from the person667
- Violence & sexual offences595
- Shoplifting535
- Anti-social behaviour407
- Public order195
- Drugs163
- Robbery121
- Burglary87
- Vehicle crime65
- Bicycle theft64
- Other crime26
- Possession of weapons21
- Criminal damage & arson7
This is the recorded crime around the centre of London. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is London a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of London for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the London crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of London?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of London. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.