Civic Data

London borough · E09000019

Islington

216,590 residents at Census 2021 across 126 LSOAs and 17 wards. Official figures from the loaded datasets, generated 14 Sept 2026.

Residents216,590Census 2021 usual residents, sum of LSOAs
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents143.8Metropolitan Police, latest 12 months
Recorded crime, change on previous 12 months+0.4%Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade incidents per 1,000 residents per year20.78London Fire Brigade, five years
Median first-appliance attendance4:46London Fire Brigade mobilisations, five years (min:sec)
Injury collisions per 1,000 residents per year2.74DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Fatal or serious collisions498DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Average house price£673,384UK HPI, latest published month
House prices, annual change-8.1%UK HPI, latest published month
Average private rent£2,854ONS Price Index of Private Rents, all bedrooms, latest published month; borough-level whole private rental stock
Median sale price£635,000HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard transactions in the latest loaded 12-month window

Recorded crime

31,150 offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 31,037 in the previous 12 months (+0.4%). Rate: 143.8 per 1,000 residents, from 126 LSOAs with data under the home-office-2019 classification.

Monthly recorded crime in Islington, 24 months: 2609, 2736, 2582, 2486, 2561, 2282, 2658, 2626, 2804, 2597, 2626, 2470, 2533, 2513, 2475, 2349, 2327, 2214, 2530, 2556, 2864, 2862, 3105, 2822
Category (12 months)Offences
THEFT12,558
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON7,732
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES2,216
VEHICLE OFFENCES1,814
DRUG OFFENCES1,713
ARSON AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE1,592
BURGLARY1,584
ROBBERY1,345
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY325
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS271

Fire brigade incidents and response

22,500 incidents attended between August 2021 and August 2026, including 2,250 fires of which 762 were in dwellings. First appliance attendance: median 4:46, 90th percentile 7:15 (min:sec, 20,997 observations).

Annual fire brigade incidents in Islington: 1743, 4189, 4355, 4664, 4633, 2916
Incident groupIncidents
False Alarm10,768
Special Service9,478
Fire2,250
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Road collisions

2,964 police-reported personal-injury collisions from 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025: 9 fatal, 489 serious and 2,466 slight.

House prices

UK House Price Index for June 2026: average price £673,384, -8.1% over the year, — sales in the month as published.

UK HPI average price in Islington, trailing year: 709694, 716078, 707758, 702138, 697720, 690359, 691624, 682438, 684506, 674086, 681176, 673384

Private rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents for July 2026: average monthly rent £2,854 across the whole private rental stock, +5.9% over the year.

Final PRMS context for 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30: published median £2,025 from 1,140 sampled rents. PRMS is discontinued and is not a current trend series.

How the rent figures work

Wards in Islington

Current ONS wards with the same factual measures. LSOA-published figures use the documented best-fit assignment; Price Paid sales use each transaction postcode's current ward.

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Use this data

JSON for Islington · JSON for all boroughs · MCP tool get_borough_profile("Islington") · npx civicdata borough "Islington"

Caveats

  • Borough figures aggregate every loaded record in the borough. Rates per 1,000 residents divide by the sum of Census 2021 LSOA usual-resident populations, which can differ slightly from ONS published borough totals because of statistical disclosure control.
  • Rates use resident population only. Boroughs with large daytime, visitor or commuter populations (for example Westminster, Camden and the City of London) record events involving many people who do not live there.
  • Fire and road-collision periods are the five years ending at the latest loaded data; crime compares the latest 12 source months with the preceding 12. Road collisions are STATS19 personal-injury collisions assigned through the collision LSOA, with a nearest-postcode fallback within 250 metres.
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