Crime Rate in St Giles, ward

St Giles has the 7th lowest crime rate of 23 wards in Southwark district and the 2116th highest crime rate ward of 7,541 wards in England and Wales. Across the region (London), it has the 310th lowest crime rate of 703 wards.

The overall crime rate in St Giles in the last 12 months was 89.4 per 1,000 residents and was 42.7% lower than the Southwark district average (156.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, St Giles’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 481 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 8 cases , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Criminal damage and arson ( 27.2% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other crime ( -21.4% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 609 (≈ 33.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 6.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -42.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the St Giles ward, the main local crime hotspot is near Further/Higher Educational Building. Police recorded 192 crimes here, including 138 violent or public-order offences. All of these hotspots lie within roughly 0.3 miles.