Revealed: Underground stations and Tube lines with highest crime rates

Evening Standard

The London Underground stations and Tube lines with the most crime have been revealed.King’s Cross St Pancras had the most recorded crimes, followed by Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road – where passenger numbers have soared because of the interchange with the Elizabeth line.Stratford and Finsbury Park make up the other Tube stations in the top five, according to crime statistics published by Transport for London.

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00:00The London Underground stations and tube lines with the most crime have been revealed.

00:04Kings Cross and Pancras have the most recorded crimes, followed by Oxford Circus and Totten

00:09Court Road, where passenger numbers have soared because of the interchange with the Elizabeth

00:14line. Stratford and Finsbury Park make up the other tube stations in the top five,

00:18according to crime statistics published by Transport for London.

00:22The Central line, one of the longest and busiest, topped the list with 1,419 crimes,

00:29making up 17% of the total. Next was the Northern line with 1,320 crimes,

00:37and the Piccadilly line came in third with 1,128. The Bakerloo line had the fewest,

00:44with just 370 crimes during the eight-month period, excluding the Waterloo and City line

00:52between Waterloo and Bank. In total, there were 16,288 crimes reported on the tube from January

01:01to August last year, a 13% increase compared to the year before. TfL said that crimes on

01:08the Underground were closely split, with 50% of the offences occurring on the train

01:14and 47% occurring at the station.

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