Total Crime Rate
400.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
138.1 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Wilmington Square area has the 12th highest crime rate of 33 local areas in Bread Street , and the 23rd 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 Wilmington Square (WC1X 0ES) in the last 12 months was 400.0 per 1,000 residents and was 16.3% higher than the Bread Street average (344.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Anti-social behaviour with 20 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Shoplifting ( -66.7% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 29 (≈ 138.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 31.8% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has flat ( 1.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Wilmington Square (WC1X 0ES), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Rosebery Avenue, where police recorded 98 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Attneave Street (24 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 | Rosebery Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Rosebery Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Exmouth Market | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Exmouth Market | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Exmouth Market | — |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Soley Mews | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Catherine Griffiths Court | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Catherine Griffiths Court | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Catherine Griffiths Court | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Crawford Passage | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Crawford Passage | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Crawford Passage | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Margery Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Margery Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Rosebery Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Exmouth Market | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Green Terrace | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Whiskin Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Whiskin Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Whiskin Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Whiskin Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Topham Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Topham Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Topham Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Pine Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Pine Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Pine Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Pine Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Exmouth Market | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Exmouth Market | Under investigation |
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