UK Drill Gangs & Crime Statistics

Sometimes people have a false perception that the areas making UK Drill music are automatically the most active/dangerous areas in terms of violence. The media and politicians also directly link UK Drill to the level of violence in London. This isn’t helped by drill youtubers that make videos like “why [insert ends] is the wildest side of London”.

Some examples of the London boroughs that make the most popular UK Drill music:

  • Haringey (north): NPK, OFB, TPL, WG (etc)

  • Enfield (north): 3×3, AP, Skengfield (etc)

  • Lambeth (south): Harlem, 410, GBG, LTH (etc)

  • Southwark (south): Zone 2, Moscow, Silwood (etc)

  • Newham (east): 7th, 6th, CGE, CH (etc)

  • Hackney (east): ZT, Homerton, Stokey16 (etc)

  • Kensington & Chelsea (west): 1011/CGM

  • Hammersmith & Fulham (west): 12 World, 12Anti (etc)

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Below are a selection of boroughs ranked by the number of homicides, the number of gun crime offences and the number of stabbing offences (some of the safer boroughs haven’t been included). Latest statistics:

Homicides

  • Newham (east): 14

  • Croydon (south): 9

  • Redbridge (east): 9

  • Brent (north west): 8

  • Ealing (west): 8

  • Southwark (south): 7

  • Hackney (east): 7

  • Camden (north west): 6

  • Greenwich (south): 6

  • Waltham Forest (east): 6

  • Wandsworth (south): 6

  • Enfield (north): 6

  • Haringey (north): 5

  • Kensington & Chelsea (west): 5

  • Tower Hamlets (east): 5

  • Barnet (north west): 4

  • Islington (north): 4

  • Hammersmith & Fulham (west): 3

  • Lambeth (south): 3

  • Lewisham (south): 3

  • Barking & Dagenham (east): 1

Gun Crime

  • Lambeth (south): 125

  • Haringey (north): 123

  • Enfield (north): 114

  • Croydon (south): 89

  • Newham (east): 89

  • Southwark (south): 88

  • Hackney (east): 86

  • Brent (north west): 84

  • Lewisham (south): 84

  • Waltham Forest (east): 82

  • Redbridge (east): 73

  • Barnet (north west): 72

  • Ealing (west): 60

  • Tower Hamlets (east): 58

  • Barking & Dagenham (east): 57

  • Greenwich (south): 56

  • Camden (north west): 49

  • Wandsworth (south): 46

  • Islington (north): 43

  • Kensington & Chelsea (west): 32

  • Hammersmith & Fulham (west): 23

Stabbings (Knife Crime with injury)

  • Lambeth (south): 201

  • Hackney (east): 189

  • Newham (east): 185

  • Croydon (south): 178

  • Haringey (north): 178

  • Southwark (south): 169

  • Tower Hamlets (east): 167

  • Lewisham (south): 166

  • Enfield (north): 159

  • Ealing (west): 146

  • Brent (north west): 143

  • Greenwich (south): 141

  • Camden (north west): 131

  • Barnet (north west): 124

  • Waltham Forest (east): 117

  • Redbridge (east): 116

  • Islington (north): 112

  • Barking & Dagenham (east): 103

  • Hammersmith & Fulham (west): 111

  • Kensington & Chelsea (west): 109

  • Wandsworth (south): 89

It was a hot year in Newham in terms of homicides. This also happened to be the year the feds took CB, Young Dizz (etc) off the streets.

In terms of stabbings and gun crime, Lambeth was the hottest borough in the past year. It’s generally the same boroughs that record the most on both counts.

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For a more long-term view, below are the combined statistics for homicides in the past two years (2018/19 and 2019/20) – and the past three years (2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20):

Boroughs with +10 homicides in the past 2 years (18/19 + 19/20)

  • Southwark (south): 17

  • Newham (east): 16

  • Greenwich (south): 15

  • Waltham Forest (east): 13

  • Wandsworth (south): 13

  • Brent (north west): 12

  • Redbridge (east): 12

  • Camden (north west): 11

  • Hackney (east): 11

  • Croydon (south): 11

  • Lambeth (south): 11

  • Tower Hamlets (east): 11

  • Ealing (west): 10

  • Haringey (north): 10

Boroughs with +15 homicides in the past 3 years (17/18 + 18/19 + 19/20)

  • Southwark (south): 30

  • Newham (east): 29

  • Greenwich (south): 22

  • Croydon (south): 20

  • Ealing (west): 19

  • Waltham Forest (east): 19

  • Wandsworth (south): 19

  • Enfield (north): 18

  • Haringey (north): 18

  • Hackney (east): 17

  • Brent (north west): 17

  • Redbridge (east): 17

  • Tower Hamlets (east): 17

  • Camden (north west): 15

  • Islington (north): 15

  • Lambeth (south): 15

In this recent era, Southwark and Newham have been worst for homicides. In general it’s South London and East London boroughs that rank worst.

Again it’s interesting to note that Greenwich ranks very high, despite its gangs barely making drill music. Same way Waltham Forest is very active, even though it only started fully making noise in drill in 2019 (Malistrip).

It’s also interesting that Ealing stats in the recent past have been consistently worse than other parts of London with a far worse reputation.


Author – u/KeezyLDN