Crime in WC1A 2

The WC1A 2 postcode sector, in the WC (West Central London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 491 street-crime records for WC1A 2 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.7% fewer than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

491

Share of WC1A

30.2%

Year-on-year

-7.7%

WC1A 2 holds 30.2% of the 1,626 records assigned to WC1A in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	35
October 2025	35
November 2025	43
December 2025	50
January 2026	29
February 2026	44
March 2026	35
April 2026	44
May 2026	45
June 2026	50
July 2026	46
August 2026	35

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

408 people lived here in the Census 2021, fewer than 1,000: too few residents for a stable rate, so no rate is shown.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Category mix compared

Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Metropolitan Police.

Category	WC1A 2	WC1A	Force
Other theft	23.2%	23.9%	8.8%
Anti-social behaviour	20.4%	21.3%	20.9%
Theft from the person	15.7%	27.2%	6.4%
Shoplifting	10.4%	4.2%	8.4%
Vehicle crime	7.7%	3.1%	7.4%
Violence and sexual offences	7.1%	6.9%	25.3%
Burglary	5.1%	2.8%	4.2%
Drugs	3.1%	1.8%	4.3%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for WC1A 2 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	364
2022	358
2023	452
2024	609
2025	458
2026 (part year)	328

Limits to keep in mind

Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Full detail is on the methodology page and in what a postcode district crime page shows, which covers sectors too.

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Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district in London

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 408 Census 2021 residents of WC1A 2.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

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93% 4

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7% 6

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0% 10

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

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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 WC1A 2 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. WC1A 2 postcode sector: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/sectors/wc1a-2/

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