Crime Statistics for Kensal Rise, London, Brent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kensal Rise in October 2024. There were a total of 1912 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Kensal Rise, 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	466
Anti Social Behaviour	448
Vehicle Crime	152
Other Theft	147
Theft From The Person	134
Public Order	104
Criminal Damage Arson	99
Burglary	90
Shoplifting	85
Robbery	82
Drugs	56
Bicycle Theft	26
Other Crime	19
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1912

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Kensal Rise. 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 Kensal Rise

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kilburn	1877
Kensal Green (0.88 miles)	1786
Kensal Rise	1779
Maida Vale (0.88 miles)	1565
St John’s Wood (1.24 miles)	1487
Kensal Town (0.62 miles)	1434
South Hampstead (1.39 miles)	1261
Brondesbury (0.62 miles)	1130
College Park (1.39 miles)	899
Brondesbury Park (0.62 miles)	778

Where are the most violent places near Kensal Rise?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kilburn	479
Kensal Rise	466
Maida Vale	462
Kensal Green	408
St John’s Wood	307
College Park	287
Kensal Town	277
South Hampstead	220
Brondesbury	192
Brondesbury Park	143

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Kensal Rise?

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 Kensal Rise 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 Kensal Rise compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kensal Rise and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Kensal Rise is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Golborne	91
2	Colville	84
3	St. Helen's	78
4	Brondesbury Park	74
5	Kilburn	74
6	Westbourne	68
7	Harrow Road	67
8	Dalgarno	67
9	Queen's Park	67
10	Queens Park	67
11	Maida Vale	59

Which road in Kensal Rise has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Kensal Rise with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.