Revealed: London's hotspots for knife crime - how bad is it in your area?

Crime statistics released by the Metropolitan Police have revealed which parts of London have seen the highest levels of knife crime in the past year.

The figures, taken from the Met’s monthly crime data statistics, show that a total of 13,649 knife related offences were recorded by Met Police officers across the capital between September 2025 and August 2026.

Of those offences, the Met have recorded 7,601 (55.6%) as being involved in a robbery, 1,490 (10.9%) involved threat to kill, and 4,190 (30.7%) are referred to as “assault with injury”.

The other 369 incidents are classed as “other” offences, including homicides, attempted murder, sexual assault and rape.

In some of the latest knife offences, seven teenagers and a man were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a “knife fight” in a KFC restaurant in south London earlier this month.

While a man was stabbed to death on a ‘Millionaire’s Row’ in Clerkenwell earlier this week.

The borough with the worst knife crime rate in the past year is Newham , with 824 offences logged.

Southwark and Lambeth ranked second and third on the list, with 697 and 691 knife related offences recorded respectively.

Westminster and Tower Hamlets also appear high on the overall list - highlighting central London’s problem with knife crime.

Southwest London recorded low figures, with Richmond, Kingston, Sutton, and Kensington & Chelsea taking the bottom four spots.

Of the 13,548 victims of knife crime in the past year, 2,319 (17.1%) were women and 10,677 (78.8%) were men, with the others not having their sex logged.

Worryingly, of victims whose ages were recorded, almost half were under the age of 25.

6,791 victims (51.7%) of victims were 26 or over, while 3,211 were between 18 and 25 and 3,087 were between 10 and 17 years old.

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