The overall crime rate in London region is 131.7 crimes per 1,000 which is 131% of the national crime average. Most crimes, 273k crimes were violent crimes which is 23.9% of all crimes committed in the area. Violent crime rate is at 89% of national crime rate. Possession of weapons crime was the fastest growing crime and it increased by 33.0% over the last twelve months.The category of "theft from the person crime" is the highest ranking crime category when category crime rate is compared to the national average. Theft from the person crime rate is at 496% of national crime rate which puts London on 1. position out of 9 England's and Wales' regions in this crime category. Theft from the person crime makes up 7.2% of all crimes committed in the area. As of March 2026 theft from the person crime totalled 82.4k representing a decrease 20.1% year-over-year.
| Crime statistic | Share of all crimes | Ranking (9 regions) | % of national crime rate | Crime volume | % annual change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime → | 23.9% | 1. lowest | 89% | 273k | 7.5% |
| Antisocial behaviour crime → | 20.6% | 1. highest | 168% | 235k | 2.4% |
| Other theft crime → | 8.8% | 1. highest | 174% | 100k | -8.2% |
| Shoplifting crime → | 7.7% | 2. highest | 122% | 87.6k | 0.0% |
| Theft from the person crime → | 7.2% | 1. highest | 496% | 82.4k | -20.1% |
| Vehicle crime → | 7.2% | 1. highest | 186% | 82.2k | -12.6% |
| Public order crime → | 5.2% | 4. lowest | 99% | 59.3k | 2.9% |
| Criminal damage and arson crime → | 4.8% | 1. lowest | 87% | 54.7k | -1.3% |
| Drugs crime → | 4.8% | 1. highest | 177% | 54.5k | 32.5% |
| Burglary crime → | 4.2% | 1. highest | 150% | 48.0k | -6.8% |
| Robbery crime → | 2.7% | 1. highest | 263% | 31.2k | -7.1% |
| Bicycle theft crime → | 1.2% | 1. highest | 188% | 14.0k | -10.5% |
| Other crime → | 1.1% | 1. lowest | 67% | 12.6k | 6.7% |
| Possession of weapons crime → | 0.5% | 1. lowest | 72% | 6.1k | 33.0% |
| Crime statistic | Share of all crimes | Crime rate ranking | % of national crime rate | Crime volume | % annual change |
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This table provides a detailed breakdown of crime rates across different regions. The data uses a color-coded intensity scale where red represents high crime rates and green represents low crime rates. While London struggles heavily with acquisitive crimes (theft, robbery, and vehicle crime), it actually performs better than many northern regions and the West Midlands when it comes to violent crime.
| Crime rate per 1000 workday people Mar 2025 - Feb 2026 | low crime █▌█▌█▌█▌█▌█▌█▌ high | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | East Midlands | East of England | North East | North West | South East | South West | West Midlands | Yorkshire | Wales | ENG+WAL | |
| Antisoc. behaviour | █▌27.2 | █▌18.0 | █▌13.0 | █▌21.5 | █▌10.6 | █▌13.6 | █▌16.1 | █▌11.5 | █▌16.2 | █▌13.4 | 16.2 |
| Burglary | █▌5.5 | █▌3.8 | █▌3.1 | █▌4.3 | █▌1.9 | █▌2.9 | █▌3.0 | █▌4.3 | █▌5.4 | █▌2.4 | 3.7 |
| C. damage,arson | █▌6.3 | █▌8.4 | █▌7.1 | █▌11.1 | █▌4.9 | █▌7.1 | █▌7.0 | █▌7.8 | █▌9.3 | █▌7.5 | 7.3 |
| Drugs | █▌6.3 | █▌3.2 | █▌3.2 | █▌3.0 | █▌3.3 | █▌3.0 | █▌2.1 | █▌2.9 | █▌3.9 | █▌2.7 | 3.6 |
| Public order | █▌6.8 | █▌7.7 | █▌5.7 | █▌8.2 | █▌5.2 | █▌6.7 | █▌7.1 | █▌6.5 | █▌9.3 | █▌8.4 | 6.9 |
| Robbery | █▌3.6 | █▌1.1 | █▌0.8 | █▌1.2 | █▌0.5 | █▌0.9 | █▌0.8 | █▌1.6 | █▌1.4 | █▌0.5 | 1.4 |
| Shoplifting | █▌10.1 | █▌9.6 | █▌7.7 | █▌11.8 | █▌3.8 | █▌8.8 | █▌7.2 | █▌9.3 | █▌9.3 | █▌6.6 | 8.3 |
| Theft fm pers. | █▌9.5 | █▌0.6 | █▌0.7 | █▌0.5 | █▌0.3 | █▌0.6 | █▌0.4 | █▌0.6 | █▌0.7 | █▌0.4 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | █▌9.5 | █▌4.5 | █▌4.9 | █▌4.1 | █▌2.0 | █▌4.1 | █▌3.1 | █▌6.9 | █▌6.0 | █▌2.9 | 5.1 |
| Violent crime | █▌31.5 | █▌38.4 | █▌35.4 | █▌38.8 | █▌25.1 | █▌34.8 | █▌36.2 | █▌41.2 | █▌46.5 | █▌34.8 | 35.4 |
| Weapon posses. | █▌0.7 | █▌1.1 | █▌1.0 | █▌1.0 | █▌0.6 | █▌1.0 | █▌0.7 | █▌1.7 | █▌1.1 | █▌0.8 | 1.0 |
This graph compares crime rate in London region to the national crime rate for each crime statistic.
| Crime statistic | London region crime rate | England and Wales - national crime rate |
|---|---|---|
| Anti-social behaviour | 27.2 | 16.2 |
| Bicycle theft | 1.6 | 0.9 |
| Burglary | 5.5 | 3.7 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 6.3 | 7.3 |
| Drugs | 6.3 | 3.6 |
| Other crime | 1.5 | 2.2 |
| Other theft | 11.6 | 6.6 |
| Possession of weapons | 0.7 | 1.0 |
| Public order | 6.8 | 6.9 |
| Robbery | 3.6 | 1.4 |
| Shoplifting | 10.1 | 8.3 |
| Theft from the person | 9.5 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | 9.5 | 5.1 |
| Violent crime | 31.5 | 35.4 |
Overall crime rate per 1000 workday people compared to the national crime rate by year.
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| Violent crime → | 23.9% |
| Antisocial behaviour crime → | 20.6% |
| Other theft crime → | 8.8% |
| Shoplifting crime → | 7.7% |
| Theft from the person crime → | 7.2% |
| Vehicle crime → | 7.2% |
| Public order crime → | 5.2% |
| Criminal damage and arson crime → | 4.8% |
| Drugs crime → | 4.8% |
| Burglary crime → | 4.2% |
| Robbery crime → | 2.7% |
| Bicycle theft crime → | 1.2% |
| Other crime → | 1.1% |
| Possession of weapons crime → | 0.5% |
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