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Official figures released last month suggest knife crime has fallen in the past year, while NHS admissions for assaults with a sharp object are down 10% compared with 2024. Violent crime is on a long-term decline going back for decades.
London remains one of the safest cities across the planet and in the country.
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than any year since monthly homicide records began in 20031, according to new analysis from the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).
The new figures show there were 70 homicides in London between 1st January and 30th September 2025, lower than the same period in every year since 2003 - and a 16 per cent reduction compared to the same period last year. Last year, London recorded the fewest number of homicides of under-25s for more than two decades. Figures this year show a 50 per cent reduction on last year’s 22-year low and the lowest number of teenage homicides since 2012.
The latest figures also show there were 1,154 fewer knife crime offences in the 12 months to August 2025 in London - a seven per cent drop. And a 10 per cent reduction in hospital admissions of under-25s for knife assaults in London in the 12 months to June 2025
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show Londoners are, on average, less likely to be a victim of a violence with injury offence than across the rest of England and Wales. London’s overall homicide rate is lower than international cities, including Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Madrid.
