Borough safety · Inner London · data through August 2026

How safe is Camden, London?

Camden, London covers 20 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Inner London index. Its median safety index is 57/100 — below the Inner London median of 60, so more is reported around a typical neighbourhood here than across Inner London. Highgate scores highest at 86/100; Bloomsbury lowest at 34/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 3 of 20 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 11 moderate, 6 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Camden, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Highgate	86/100	Low risk	112
2 Hampstead Town	85/100	Low risk	131
3 Frognal	79/100	Low risk	200
4 Primrose Hill	71/100	Moderate	301
5 Kentish Town North	67/100	Moderate	388
6 Fortune Green	66/100	Moderate	377
7 Gospel Oak	66/100	Moderate	385
8 Belsize	63/100	Moderate	442
9 West Hampstead	59/100	Moderate	513
10 South Hampstead	57/100	Moderate	564
11 Kilburn	56/100	Moderate	580
12 Haverstock	55/100	Moderate	620
13 Camden Square	51/100	Moderate	718
14 Kentish Town South	51/100	Moderate	719
15 Camden Town	48/100	Elevated	791
16 Regent's Park	48/100	Elevated	794
17 Holborn & Covent Garden	43/100	Elevated	1,099
18 King's Cross	43/100	Elevated	1,029
19 St Pancras & Somers Town	40/100	Elevated	1,134
20 Bloomsbury	34/100	Elevated	1,571

How Camden compares across Inner London

Boroughs (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Greenwich	80/100	23
Wandsworth	75/100	22
Lewisham	74/100	19
Hammersmith and Fulham	62/100	21
Kensington and Chelsea	60/100	18
Hackney	59/100	21
Lambeth	58/100	25
Southwark	57/100	23
Camden (this page)	57/100	20
Tower Hamlets	54/100	20
Islington	50/100	17
Westminster	48/100	18

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Camden, London?

Highgate has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Camden, London, at 86/100 (low risk), from 112 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Hampstead Town (85/100) and Frognal (79/100) follow.

Which neighbourhood in Camden, London has the most reported crime?

Bloomsbury has the lowest index in Camden, London, at 34/100, with 1,571 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. A low score means more is reported around that centre, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Camden, London safe?

Across its 20 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 57/100, against 60 across Inner London. 3 rate low risk, 11 moderate, 6 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the borough — check the individual neighbourhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each police-recorded incident by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighbourhood centre, and normalises against national crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for Camden, London is the median of its 20 neighbourhoods — the borough is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident published by the police (via data.police.uk, Open Government Licence) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre (ONS December 2025 ward centroids), and normalise onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Incident locations are anonymised by the police to nearby snap points, so the maps show streets rather than exact addresses. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighbourhoods within Inner London. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — London's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.