Total Crime Rate
101.8 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
39.8 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Finsbury Estate area has the 4th lowest crime rate of 33 local areas in Bread Street , and the 8th lowest crime rate of 58 local areas in City of London .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Finsbury Estate (EC1R 0BS) in the last 12 months was 101.8 per 1,000 residents and was 70.4% lower than the Bread Street average (344.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 7 offences recorded. The least common crime was Drugs with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Burglary ( -33.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 9 (≈ 39.8 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -18.2% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -15.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Finsbury Estate (EC1R 0BS), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 124 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Whiskin Street (23 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Clerkenwell| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hardwick Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Broad Yard | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Garnault Mews | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hardwick Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hardwick Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Lloyd'S Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Hardwick Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | B501 | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Earlstoke Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Aylesbury Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Aylesbury Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Lloyd'S Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Broad Yard | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Lloyd'S Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Myddelton Passage | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Skinner Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Skinner Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Spencer Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Lloyd'S Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Lloyd'S Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Lloyd'S Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Lloyd'S Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Lloyd'S Row | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Clerkenwell Green | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Clerkenwell Green | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wynyatt Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Clerkenwell Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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