Total Crime Rate
417.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
128.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Bakers Yard area has the 10th highest crime rate of 33 local areas in Bread Street , and the 21st highest 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 Bakers Yard (EC1R 3DD) in the last 12 months was 417.5 per 1,000 residents and was 21.4% higher than the Bread Street average (344.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Other theft with 40 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Burglary ( 20.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Shoplifting ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 38 (≈ 127.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -2.6% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -67.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Bakers Yard (EC1R 3DD), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 125 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Portpool Lane (29 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Clerkenwell| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Exmouth Market | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Rosebery Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | White Bear Yd | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | White Bear Yd | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | White Bear Yd | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Vine Street Bridge | — |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Farringdon Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Farringdon Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Farringdon Road | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Rosebery Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Rosebery Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | White Bear Yd | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Leather Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Leather Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Leather Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Leather Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Leather Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Saffron Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Saffron Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Saffron Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Onslow Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | White Bear Yd | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | White Bear Yd | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Crawford Passage | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Vine Hill | — |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Vine Hill | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Vine Hill | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Coldbath Square | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Warner Street | Under investigation |
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