Total Crime Rate
3017.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
456.9 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Grape Street area has the 3rd highest crime rate of 76 local areas in Bloomsbury , and the 4th highest crime rate of 548 local areas in Camden .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Grape Street (WC2H 8DX) in the last 12 months was 3017.2 per 1,000 residents and was 350.4% higher than the Bloomsbury average (669.9 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Theft from the person with 376 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 3 cases , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 18.3% YoY). The sharpest decline was Drugs ( -33.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 159 (≈ 456.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 12.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 45.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Grape Street (WC2H 8DX), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Conference/Exhibition Centre, where police recorded 557 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Theatre/Concert Hall (86 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Holborn & Covent Garden| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Covent Garden | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Earnshaw Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Further/Higher Educational Building | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Further/Higher Educational Building | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Further/Higher Educational Building | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Further/Higher Educational Building | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Earnshaw Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Earnshaw Street | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Earnshaw Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Earnshaw Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Earnshaw Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Earnshaw Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Earnshaw Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Further/Higher Educational Building | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Further/Higher Educational Building | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | West Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Bucknall Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Bucknall Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Bucknall Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Tower Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | St Giles High Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | St Giles High Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | St Giles High Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | St Giles High Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | St Giles High Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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