How Safe is London for Students?

It affects students more so than in house drug taking, thus the reason why I think Westminster would be the worst borough for students to reside or go to University in. The statistics isn't a methodology or opinion, its factual, even if it doesn't count for population etc.

Nope, I'd say it's in Camden, and the fact that I live in WC1H with Camden Town Hall a 3 minute walk from me is perfect justification of it's positioning.

Anyhows, can you please give me a link to where you're getting these figures from, and their relative breakdown, as I'd rather look over them myselves, as arbitrary statistics can often be very misleading, and I have more than enough experience (having taken advanced Probability and Statistics modules at University) to be able to/want to sort through them myself. Cheers.

Westminster has the highest crime rate, simply because that's where most people are. Despite having a small "live-in" population, it's where loads of people work, visit the sights, go shopping and go to college. To say that KCL on The Strand is in a dangerous place is laughable.

I would easily say this, your more likely to be a victim of crime by going to UCL, KCL, SOAS than you are QMUL. Simple fact.

Where's QMUL? Mile end is the area... is that Tower Hamlets borough? You're living in Disneyland if you think your statement is true.

http://www.upmystreet.com/local/police-crime/figures/l/WC2R+2LS.html
http://www.upmystreet.com/local/police-crime/figures/l/E1+4NS.html

The stats are pretty similar... Consider that Westminster's stats are skewed by the fact that not many people live there compared to the number of people that visit/work there each day though. Each day I'd expect the number of people in the borough of Westminster to rise to double it's natural population at the minimum due to tourists and people going to work. Because of the huge number of "visitors" to the borough, the amount of crime in Westminster is disproportionately skewed per 1000 that actually live there.

I'll give you some proper figures, direct from the Metropolitan Police

Oh - your stats are still stating that QMUL is in a safer area

See attached.

The stats are pretty similar... Consider that Westminster's stats are skewed by the fact that not many people live there compared to the number of people that visit/work there each day though. Each day I'd expect the number of people in the borough of Westminster to rise to double it's natural population at the minimum due to tourists and people going to work. Because of the huge number of "visitors" to the borough, the amount of crime in Westminster is disproportionately skewed per 1000 that actually live there.

Wise up mate - 658 versus 608 offences against the person. Consider the number of people in Westminster each and every day, versus the number of people in Tower Hamlets. Like I said:

Provided you are sensible, you are fine.

Best advice so far.

you're more liable to become a victim of crime within the borough or Camden! whichever you so suitably prefer, which speaks volumes.

Yes it does, hence "per 1000 statistics" which show Westminster as having a slightly higher crime rate per 1000 people living in the borough.

However, you have to consider that not everybody in Westminster lives there. Westminster is a special case, namely because of the absolutely enormous amount of visitors each day, thus the "per 1000" people living there stats are skewed, and cannot be used. Thus the total number of crimes performed in the borough is higher, because a hell of a lot more people are there visiting and working every single day (think Oxford Street, Regent Street, Houses of Parliament, Leicester Square, Picadilly Circus etc). I'm trying to find a figure for the number of people in the borough each day, but google isn't coming up with many results. We'll have to agree to disagree I suppose.

Yes it does, hence "per 1000 statistics" which show Westminster as having a slightly higher crime rate per 1000 people living in the borough.



However, you have to consider that not everybody in Westminster lives there. Westminster is a special case, namely because of the absolutely enormous amount of visitors each day, thus the "per 1000" people living there stats are skewed, and cannot be used. Thus the total number of crimes performed in the borough is higher, because a hell of a lot more people are there visiting and working every single day (think Oxford Street, Regent Street, Houses of Parliament, Leicester Square, Picadilly Circus etc). I'm trying to find a figure for the number of people in the borough each day, but google isn't coming up with many results. We'll have to agree to disagree I suppose.

Anyway, like I said - you should keep your wits about you wherever you are in London, and probably every other big city in the UK and even the world.

The figures are silly. Affluent districts often have higher crime rates than some absolute cess-pits because a) car jacking and burglary are more profitable there and b) nobody reports being ****ted on in a cess-pit. You're still more likely to get knifed where charvas roam than in the land of stockbrokers...