Canonbury
WardEast Islington. About 12,418 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Canonbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Canonbury compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Canonbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Canonbury at a rate of 112.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 183.9 per 1,000 people across Islington.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 118 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Canonbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (337), anti-social behaviour (220) and other crime (219).
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 Islington
These figures are published for the whole of Islington, not for each ward, so they describe all of Islington and not Canonbury alone. See Islington
Canonbury in brief
Canonbury had 12,671 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Canonbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Canonbury, 99.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Canonbury, 5.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.