Crime in WC2B 5

The WC2B 5 postcode sector, in the WC (West Central London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 943 street-crime records for WC2B 5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 12.9% 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

943

Share of WC2B

64.4%

Year-on-year

-12.9%

WC2B 5 holds 64.4% of the 1,465 records assigned to WC2B in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	64
October 2025	79
November 2025	108
December 2025	104
January 2026	69
February 2026	81
March 2026	84
April 2026	79
May 2026	74
June 2026	68
July 2026	69
August 2026	64

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

978 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	WC2B 5	WC2B	Force
Other theft	32.0%	29.8%	8.8%
Anti-social behaviour	17.7%	17.8%	20.9%
Theft from the person	16.3%	17.0%	6.4%
Violence and sexual offences	15.4%	16.2%	25.3%
Shoplifting	4.1%	4.0%	8.4%
Public order	3.5%	4.3%	5.3%
Burglary	3.4%	3.1%	4.2%
Vehicle crime	2.2%	1.6%	7.4%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for WC2B 5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	557
2022	1,175
2023	1,432
2024	1,153
2025	1,071
2026 (part year)	588

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 978 Census 2021 residents of WC2B 5.

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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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 WC2B 5 postcode sector, with the same source and months.

CrimeMapsUK. WC2B 5 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/wc2b-5/

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