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🟢 Official crime data · Police-recorded crime, data.police.uk · May–July 2026 Methodology →

Relatively safer day Relatively safer night

Relative rank 1 among boroughs currently covered. Based on official Metropolitan Police data, averaged over 3 months (2026-05 to 2026-07).

Real administrative boundary — Office for National Statistics 2021 boundaries, not an approximate circle.

Recorded incidents (total across 3 months, 2026-05–2026-07)
CategoryCount
Other theft435
Shoplifting406
Violent crime342
Theft from the person301
Public order147
Bicycle theft114
Burglary87
Criminal damage arson74
Robbery74
Drugs63
Anti social behaviour49
Vehicle crime46
Possession of weapons15
Other crime11

2164 incidents total over 3 months — averages 721.3/month, which is what the day/night scores below are based on.

Data completeness: partial sample (legacy prototype data). This page reflects an early, truncated sample (~2164 incidents) rather than the full window for City of London — it predates the automated fetch pipeline. Day score: 0.4011 weighted incidents/1,000 people, averaged over the last 3 months (16% of the 33-area average). Night score: 1.6281 weighted incidents/1,000 people, same window (13% of the 33-area average). Both are normalised by an estimated workday/footfall population of 419,884 rather than the 2021 resident population of 8,600, so central boroughs with heavy commuter and visitor footfall aren't overstated as riskier simply for having fewer official residents. The footfall estimate is derived from the ONS's 2011 Census workday-population release — the most recent one published — applied to City of London's current resident population, and it is therefore an approximation of today's footfall, not a measurement of it. Rated against the average of the 33 areas currently on the automated pipeline — 32 boroughs and the City of London.
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This link is already scoped to City of London, not the whole of London.

Source: UK Police street-level crime data →

Frequently asked questions

Is City of London safe?

Based on real, current UK Police data, Wandroz rates City of London as relatively safer than most other neighbourhoods in London during the day and relatively safer than most other neighbourhoods in London at night, relative to the other London boroughs currently on the automated pipeline. The rating comes from 2164 recorded incidents over 3 months (2026-05 to 2026-07), split into a day-weighted score (property crime) and a night-weighted score (violence, robbery, antisocial behaviour).

Is City of London safe at night?

City of London's night score is relatively safer than most other neighbourhoods in London, based on the categories most relevant after dark (violence, robbery, street theft, public order, antisocial behaviour), normalised by an estimated workday/footfall population rather than plain residents where that data exists, so busy central boroughs aren't overstated as riskier just for having fewer official residents.

What official data is City of London's rating based on?

2164 recorded incidents from data.police.uk (the UK Police's official open crime API), queried against City of London's real administrative boundary and covering 3 months (2026-05 to 2026-07) — recomputed from the source data whenever the Met publishes new months, not a one-off snapshot. Full category breakdown is shown further down this page.

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