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Council area
City of London crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 9,469 street-crime records for the City of London council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 4.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 1,103.4 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 1,041.5 for City of London Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area City of London council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call City of London: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
9,469
Latest month (August 2026)
763
Year-on-year
-4.5%
Month-by-month totals
9140
724
Sep
878
Oct
779
Nov
914
Dec
816
Jan
815
Feb
814
Mar
790
Apr
698
May
757
Jun
721
Jul
763
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
724
October 2025
878
November 2025
779
December 2025
914
January 2026
816
February 2026
815
March 2026
814
April 2026
790
May 2026
698
June 2026
757
July 2026
721
August 2026
763
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
City of London council area
1,103.4
City of London Police
1,041.5
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
9,469 records and 8,582 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of the City of London council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Other theft24.6%
2,330 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Shoplifting16.4%
1,557 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Violence and sexual offences15.1%
1,430 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Theft from the person13.3%
1,257 records · England and Wales 1.7%
Public order6.6%
621 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Burglary5.1%
480 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Drugs4.3%
403 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Bicycle theft3.6%
341 records · England and Wales 0.9%
Where records cluster in the City of London council area
Records by part of the City of London council area: the east 4,246, the west 1,729, the centre 1,404, the north-east 1,371, the north-west 1,130, the south-east 1,100, the north 615, the south-west 410, the south 241.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of the City of London council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the City of London council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the City of London council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the City of London council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the City of London council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E09000001), which can differ from the place people call City of London.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for City of London. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.