Crime deprivation levels across London neighbourhoods

Last updated: December 2025
Next update: TBC

What does this indicator show?

This indicator ranks London’s neighbourhoods according to its level of crime.

It uses the English Indices of Deprivation, which gives each neighbourhood an overall deprivation score. It does this by combining data from seven areas known as domains, one of which is crime.

For this indicator, we have excluded all non-London neighbourhoods and divided them into five equal groups - known as quintiles. This allows us to quickly see which areas of London have the highest levels of crime. Darker neighbourhoods face the highest levels of crime, lighter areas the least.

What does it tell us?

Neighbourhoods with higher levels of crime are spread all over the city. However, there are concentrations of neighbourhoods with higher levels of crime in North London boroughs such as Enfield, Tower Hamlets and Hackney, as well as in Croydon, Lewisham and Southwark.

This indicator is part of our work to map deprivation across London, using the English Index of Multiple Deprivation. Explore all of our IMD maps.