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Number of police recorded crime offences recorded in London from 2015/16 to 2024/25

Characteristic	Number of offences
2024/25	951,803
2023/24	938,020
2022/23	887,870
2021/22	835,822
2020/21	746,126
2019/20	912,487
2018/19	865,214
2017/18	820,920
2016/17	774,734
2015/16	743,728

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July 2025

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United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2025

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This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the .

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There were 951,803 crimes recorded in London in the 2024/25 reporting year, compared with 938,020 in the previous year. During this time period, crime in London increased steadily, with the figure of 912,487 in 2019/20 a pre-pandemic peak when there were approximately 102.4 crimes per 1,000 people taking place in the UK capital, compared with 106.4 crimes per 1,000 people in the most recent year.

What types of crime are rising?

Compared with crime levels before the COVID-19 pandemic, some types of crime have yet to reach the same levels they were at in the 2019/20 reporting year. The number of criminal offences related to theft and drugs, are slightly down in 2023/24 when compared with pre-pandemic trends. On the other hand, the number of violent crimes reached a peak of 252,545 offences in 2023/24, while the number of sexual offences in London since 2021/22 has been far higher than in previous years.

London compared to the rest of UK

While the UK capital receives extensive coverage for its crime problems, the increase in crime there is part of a wider trend afflicting the rest of the country. The overall crime rate for England and Wales in 2023/24 was 87.9 crimes per 1,000 people, which though lower than in the previous two reporting years was still far higher than in the mid-2010s. Additionally the Metropolitan Police, the police service responsible for policing Greater London had the fifth-highest crime rate among police force areas with Cleveland police force in North East England having the highest.