Crime Statistics for St James, London, City of Westminster, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St James in September 2024. There were a total of 1025 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Theft From The Person.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in St James, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	599
Theft From The Person	228
Vehicle Crime	177
Other Crime	21
All Crime	1025

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes St James. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to St James

We've taken the ten nearest places to St James and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if St James has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Holborn (0.88 miles)	5185
Strand (0.62 miles)	5065
Marylebone (0.88 miles)	5010
Mayfair (0.62 miles)	4722
London (1.39 miles)	3001
Belgravia (0.88 miles)	1481
Knightsbridge (1.39 miles)	1153
Brompton (1.39 miles)	1153
Pimlico (1.24 miles)	1152
St James	1025

Where are the most violent places near St James?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to St James and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
London	808
Holborn	739
Marylebone	675
Strand	659
St James	599
Mayfair	520
Pimlico	256
Belgravia	231
Knightsbridge	187
Brompton	187

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in St James?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in St James to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in St James compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St James and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in St James have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Prince's.

#	Ward	Score
1	Prince's	59
2	West End	59
3	Bishop's	55
4	Brompton & Hans Town	48
5	Knightsbridge and Belgravia	46
6	Churchill	46
7	Tachbrook	46
8	Warwick	43
9	St James's	35
10	Marylebone High Street	30
11	Vincent Square	25

Which road in St James has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in St James with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Marsham Street.