Total Crime Rate

100.0 per 1,000 8/10 · High

All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025
Latest update: 05.12.2025 Crime figures are sourced from data.police.uk and are typically published with a 3-month delay.
Crime rate per 1000 residents
  • All crimes 100.0 8/10
  • Other theft 33.3 10/10
  • Anti-social behaviour 20.0 8/10
  • Theft from the person 20.0 9/10
  • Public order 13.3 8/10
  • Vehicle crime 6.7 6/10
  • Violence and sexual offences 6.7 2/10
  • Bicycle theft 0.0 1/10
  • Burglary 0.0 1/10
  • Criminal damage and arson 0.0 1/10
  • Drugs 0.0 1/10
  • Other crime 0.0 1/10
  • Possession of weapons 0.0 1/10
  • Robbery 0.0 1/10
  • Shoplifting 0.0 1/10
Values shown per 1,000 residents · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025 · Rating compares this oa to UK peers of the same type.
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Crime overview

Long Yard area has the 5th lowest crime rate of 21 local areas in Holborn & Covent Garden , and the 200th lowest crime rate of 567 local areas in Camden .

Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.

The overall crime rate in the area around Long Yard (WC1N 3LU) in the last 12 months was 100.0 per 1,000 residents and was 78.2% lower than the Holborn & Covent Garden average (459.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Other theft with 5 offences recorded. The least common crime was Vehicle crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Public order ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -50.0% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 3 (≈ 20.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 2.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the area around Long Yard (WC1N 3LU), the main crime hotspot is near Emerald Street. Police recorded 129 crimes here, including 95 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.

Crime Over Time in Long Yard area

Showing crimes within 0.3 miles (30/84)
Month:
MonthCrimeLocation*Last Outcome
Sep 2025Theft from the person Mecklenburgh Square Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Theft from the person Red Lion Square Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Other theft Drake Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Robbery Drake Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Orde Hall Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Orde Hall Street —
Sep 2025Theft from the person Drake Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Theft from the person Drake Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Drake Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Theft from the person Dane Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Robbery Further/Higher Educational Building Under investigation
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Brownlow Mews Under investigation
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Dombey Street —
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Brownlow Mews Under investigation
Sep 2025Vehicle crime Brownlow Mews Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Anti-social behaviour Red Lion Street —
Sep 2025Other theft Red Lion Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Other theft Old Gloucester Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Other theft Sandland Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Theft from the person Further/Higher Educational Building Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Bicycle theft Further/Higher Educational Building Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Criminal damage and arson Emerald Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Other theft Drake Street Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Burglary Bedford Row Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Emerald Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Bicycle theft Barbon Close Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Old Gloucester Street Under investigation
Sep 2025Public order Further/Higher Educational Building Unable to prosecute suspect
Sep 2025Theft from the person King'S Mews Investigation complete; no suspect identified
Sep 2025Violence and sexual offences Mecklenburgh Square Under investigation
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Data Sources

StreetScan crime figures are based on official UK open data:

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