Holborn & Covent Garden
WardSouth east Camden. About 11,249 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 18% of people in Holborn & Covent Garden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Holborn & Covent Garden compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Holborn & Covent Garden safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Holborn & Covent Garden at a rate of 566.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 215.5 per 1,000 people across Camden.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 453 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Holborn & Covent Garden.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were other crime (1,458), theft from the person (1,128) and shoplifting (866).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Camden
These figures are published for the whole of Camden, not for each ward, so they describe all of Camden and not Holborn & Covent Garden alone. See Camden
Holborn & Covent Garden in brief
Holborn & Covent Garden had 10,366 usual residents at the census.
About 18% of people in Holborn & Covent Garden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Holborn & Covent Garden, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Holborn & Covent Garden, 5.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.