Crime in London: Metropolitan Police area
Published street-crime records for London from the Metropolitan Police area on data.police.uk.
Updated November 2026.
Police published 1,120,687 street-crime records for the Metropolitan Police area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.3% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 127.5 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
Data scope: Metropolitan Police area - most of London, excluding the separate City of London Police area (the Square Mile). This is the police force boundary used by data.police.uk, not a single London borough.
London boroughs ranked by crime rate ↓
This page covers the whole Metropolitan Police area. Council areas with enough published records have their own page.
Latest month: August 2026
Street-crime records
94,514
Police-recorded action or local resolution
1,075
Share with those outcomes
1.1%
Coverage for Metropolitan Police currently spans 153 months
of loaded street-crime data, from December 2013 to August 2026.
Outcome shares are descriptive summaries of published police outcomes, not conviction rates.
Website outcome summaries include anti-social behaviour among records with no outcome. The PDF outcome mix leaves it out because police publish no outcome for it.
Last 12 loaded months
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
1,120,687
Share with action or local resolution
2.0%
Change vs previous 12 months
-2.3%
Month-by-month totals
| Month |
Street-crime records |
| September 2025 |
93,218 |
| October 2025 |
98,497 |
| November 2025 |
94,163 |
| December 2025 |
90,907 |
| January 2026 |
86,635 |
| February 2026 |
84,543 |
| March 2026 |
92,676 |
| April 2026 |
91,534 |
| May 2026 |
96,674 |
| June 2026 |
95,682 |
| July 2026 |
101,644 |
| August 2026 |
94,514 |
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.
Metropolitan Police
127.5
1,120,687 records and 8,791,196 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.
London boroughs ranked by published crime rate
Published street-crime records per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, September 2025 to August 2026, as each council area's page shows them. This ranks rates, not safety: a residents-only rate reads high where many people visit and few live, such as a city centre. How this ranking is built.
| Rank of 32 |
Council area |
Per 1,000 |
Records |
| 1 |
Westminster
204,152 residents
|
422.3 |
86,205 |
| 2 |
Camden
210,149 residents
|
222.7 |
46,799 |
| 3 |
Islington
216,477 residents
|
190.7 |
41,286 |
| 4 |
Kensington and Chelsea
143,419 residents
|
173.3 |
24,853 |
| 5 |
Southwark
307,605 residents
|
162.2 |
49,888 |
| 6 |
Tower Hamlets
310,386 residents
|
156.2 |
48,480 |
| 7 |
Lambeth
317,748 residents
|
151.8 |
48,246 |
| 8 |
Hackney
258,858 residents
|
150.0 |
38,833 |
| 9 |
Newham
351,030 residents
|
144.7 |
50,785 |
| 10 |
Hammersmith and Fulham
183,144 residents
|
143.4 |
26,260 |
| 11 |
Haringey
264,766 residents
|
133.0 |
35,205 |
| 12 |
Hillingdon
305,892 residents
|
128.0 |
39,169 |
| 13 |
Brent
340,009 residents
|
124.0 |
42,164 |
| 14 |
Lewisham
300,541 residents
|
123.2 |
37,037 |
| 15 |
Ealing
367,117 residents
|
118.9 |
43,650 |
| 16 |
Greenwich
289,229 residents
|
116.1 |
33,590 |
| 17 |
Hounslow
288,270 residents
|
113.4 |
32,700 |
| 18 |
Enfield
329,912 residents
|
110.9 |
36,602 |
| 19 |
Barking and Dagenham
218,895 residents
|
110.6 |
24,215 |
| 20 |
Croydon
390,843 residents
|
108.5 |
42,394 |
| 21 |
Waltham Forest
278,467 residents
|
105.6 |
29,404 |
| 22 |
Wandsworth
327,509 residents
|
101.3 |
33,190 |
| 23 |
Redbridge
310,236 residents
|
98.4 |
30,539 |
| 24 |
Barnet
389,021 residents
|
96.5 |
37,534 |
| 25 |
Havering
262,042 residents
|
92.9 |
24,344 |
| 26 |
Kingston upon Thames
168,131 residents
|
89.8 |
15,106 |
| 27 |
Bromley
329,556 residents
|
87.4 |
28,796 |
| 28 |
Harrow
261,051 residents
|
84.7 |
22,100 |
| 29 |
Bexley
246,512 residents
|
82.2 |
20,271 |
| 30 |
Sutton
209,561 residents
|
78.8 |
16,510 |
| 31 |
Merton
215,411 residents
|
75.6 |
16,290 |
| 32 |
Richmond upon Thames
195,257 residents
|
73.6 |
14,373 |
London boroughs ranked by published crime rate, as CSV too, and council areas across England and Wales.
Top crime categories
Share of street-crime records in the same trailing window for the Metropolitan Police area.
| Category |
Records |
Share |
| Violence and sexual offences |
283,265 |
25.3% |
| Anti-social behaviour |
233,725 |
20.9% |
| Other theft |
98,366 |
8.8% |
| Shoplifting |
93,613 |
8.4% |
| Vehicle crime |
82,846 |
7.4% |
| Theft from the person |
72,226 |
6.4% |
| Public order |
59,879 |
5.3% |
| Drugs |
48,408 |
4.3% |
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Latest loaded month for Metropolitan Police: July 2026.
Limits to keep in mind
- These figures are published police records for the Metropolitan Police area, not a single borough, council area, street, or postcode.
- Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release.
- Recording practices differ between forces, so force-to-force comparisons need care.
- Outcome labels are not court results or conviction rates.
Full detail is on the methodology page.
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Postcode districts
District pages where Metropolitan Police published most of the records, September 2025 to August 2026. Each district page lists the sectors that have their own page.
Cite this page
This page updates as new months are published, so a citation needs the months shown and the date you read it. One click selects the whole citation. The CSV holds this page's monthly and category figures for Metropolitan Police area, with the same source and months.
CrimeMapsUK. Metropolitan Police area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 1 November 2026. Police locations are approximate. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/london/
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