Street level crimes recorded by neighbourhood income deprivation decile in London (2025)
Last updated: May 2026
Next estimated update: February 2027
What does this indicator show?
This indicator shows the number of crimes recorded in London neighbourhoods, broken down by the neighbourhoods’ level of deprivation and type of crime.
It brings together street-level crime recorded by the three police forces operating in London: the Metropolitan Police Service, City of London Police and British Transport Police.
Further down, we look at how this compares to other cities across England.
What does it tell us?
Recorded crime in London is more prevalent in neighbourhoods with higher levels of income deprivation:
- Overall, the most income deprived neighbourhoods in London were around 32% more likely to experience crime in 2025 than the least income deprived neighbourhoods (146 compared to 110 crimes per 1,000 population).
- Violence, robbery and sexual offences as well as Anti-social behaviour, public order and miscellaneous offences, were around 2 times more likely in the most income-deprived 10% of areas compared to the least income-deprived 10%
- Drugs and weapons offences are nearly 3 times more likely in the most income-deprived 10% of areas compared to the least income-deprived 10%.
These figures only scratch the surface of what is undoubtedly a complex relationship between crime and deprivation. For example, these figures only look at crime reported to and recorded by London’s police forces.
As only a subset of crimes are brought to the police’s attention, the overall levels are almost certainly higher than indicated here. It is also likely that people have differing likelihoods of reporting crime to the police.
How does London compare to other English cities?
Street level crimes recorded in major English cities by type (2025)
This chart shows the crime rate in major English cities, calculated as the number of crimes per 1,000 people.
The cities shown are English cities with a population of at least 500,000 (as well as Bristol, which at 495,000 was just under the cut-off point, and so included). Manchester is not shown, because the Greater Manchester Police do not make their data available in the same way.
London has a lower crime rate (crimes per capita) than most other major English cities. There were 112 crimes for every 1,000 people in London in 2025 compared to 133 in Bradford, which has the highest rate of crime among major cities. Of the cities shown here, only Sheffield had a lower crime rate than London.
London has the lowest rate of ‘violence, robbery and sexual offences’ - there were 30 per 1,000 people in London, compared to 60 per 1,000 people in Bradford, Leeds (52) and Birmingham (51). London also has the lowest rate of arson, burglary and criminal damage (10 per 1,000 people).
On the other hand, London has the highest rate of theft and shoplifting (27 per 1,000 people) the joint highest rate of vehicle crime (with Birmingham) and joint second highest anti-social behaviour and public order offences with Sheffield after Bristol.
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