Crime and place

Income

Income deprivation is the headline measure here: the share of residents on low incomes, ranked into national deciles.

Employment

The share of working-age residents involuntarily out of work, ranked into national deciles.

Station distance

Straight-line distance from each LSOA's population-weighted centre to its nearest TfL or National Rail station.

Being near a station partly just means being in central London, where residents are outnumbered by commuters, shoppers and visitors. Rates per resident are inflated there.

Park distance

Straight-line distance from each LSOA’s population-weighted centre to its nearest public park, garden or playing field entrance.

A park nearby also tracks urban density, so this is an association, not an effect of the park itself.

Park area

Hectares of public park, garden and playing field within 1 km of each LSOA's population-weighted centre.

The amount of park within 1 km shows no clear relationship. Closeness matters here, not size.

Overall deprivation (IMD)

The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 combines seven domains into one ranking.

One of those domains is crime, so part of this relationship is crime compared with itself. Use the income and employment sections above for a cleaner comparison.