Victims of crime

You asked

Please provide information on those who are most likely to be victims of crime in London for 2018 divided by gender.

All crimes to be included with the exception of Burglary, Fraud and Drugs.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry regarding victims of crime in London.

We publish statistics taken from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and crimes recorded by the police. The CSEW is a face-to-face victimisation survey and is the best source for information relating to victims of crime.

Alongside our quarterly crime statistics bulletin we publish a set of open data tables. The Personal Crime Prevalence Open Data Table contains CSEW estimates broken down by each combination of offence group, age, sex, and important demographic characteristics. There is an instruction document within the zip file that explains how to use the table.

To give you an example, if you filter by the characteristics the attached table this shows that an estimated 0.4% of females and 0.2% of males living in London (aged 16 and over) were a victim of snatch theft in the year ending September 2018.

If you have any crime-related queries in the future, you can email crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help.