Crime in WC1B 4

The WC1B 4 postcode sector, in the WC (West Central London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 166 street-crime records for WC1B 4 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.4% more 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

166

Share of WC1B

12.8%

Year-on-year

+6.4%

WC1B 4 holds 12.8% of the 1,294 records assigned to WC1B in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	13
October 2025	10
November 2025	10
December 2025	14
January 2026	7
February 2026	9
March 2026	10
April 2026	11
May 2026	18
June 2026	31
July 2026	22
August 2026	11

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

196 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 4	WC1B	Force
Shoplifting	28.3%	15.9%	8.4%
Anti-social behaviour	21.1%	14.3%	20.9%
Other theft	17.5%	16.9%	8.8%
Theft from the person	12.0%	23.7%	6.4%
Violence and sexual offences	9.6%	10.2%	25.3%
Burglary	3.6%	2.9%	4.2%
Drugs	3.0%	1.8%	4.3%
Robbery	1.8%	3.3%	2.7%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for WC1B 4 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	54
2022	113
2023	189
2024	178
2025	133
2026 (part year)	119

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 196 Census 2021 residents of WC1B 4.

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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0% 3

39% 4

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61% 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 WC1B 4 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. WC1B 4 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-4/

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