Total Crime Rate
417.5 per 1,000
All offences Β· May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
128.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Lothbury 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 Lothbury (EC2P 2BP) 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 areaβs 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 (β 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 Lothbury (EC2P 2BP), 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 | Other theft | Hatton Wall | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Mount Pleasant | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mount Pleasant | β |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Mount Pleasant | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Mount Pleasant | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Mount Pleasant | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Mount Pleasant | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Mount Pleasant | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Verulam Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mount Pleasant | β |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Laystall Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Laystall Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Portpool Lane | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Portpool Lane | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Portpool Lane | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Portpool Lane | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Portpool Lane | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mount Pleasant | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mount Pleasant | β |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Portpool Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Exmouth Market | β |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Herbal Hill | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Exmouth Market | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Exmouth Market | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Exmouth Market | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Exmouth Market | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Exmouth Market | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Attneave Street | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Catherine Griffiths Court | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Attneave Street | β |
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