Crime in WC1B 3

The WC1B 3 postcode sector, in the WC (West Central London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 804 street-crime records for WC1B 3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 4.6% 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

804

Share of WC1B

62.1%

Year-on-year

-4.6%

WC1B 3 holds 62.1% of the 1,294 records assigned to WC1B in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

Sep

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	65
October 2025	75
November 2025	99
December 2025	64
January 2026	63
February 2026	64
March 2026	56
April 2026	60
May 2026	58
June 2026	57
July 2026	76
August 2026	67

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

823 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	WC1B 3	WC1B	Force
Theft from the person	22.9%	23.7%	6.4%
Shoplifting	19.4%	15.9%	8.4%
Anti-social behaviour	14.3%	14.3%	20.9%
Other theft	14.2%	16.9%	8.8%
Violence and sexual offences	10.3%	10.2%	25.3%
Public order	6.8%	5.6%	5.3%
Robbery	3.2%	3.3%	2.7%
Bicycle theft	2.5%	2.7%	1.3%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for WC1B 3 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	539
2022	727
2023	623
2024	821
2025	845
2026 (part year)	501

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 823 Census 2021 residents of WC1B 3.

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%.

0% 1

0% 2

6% 3

54% 4

0% 5

40% 6

0% 7

0% 8

0% 9

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 WC1B 3 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. WC1B 3 postcode sector: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 31 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/wc1b-3/

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