Crime Statistics for Kenton, London, Brent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kenton in October 2024. There were a total of 620 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 Kenton, 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	184
Anti Social Behaviour	144
Other Theft	46
Vehicle Crime	45
Theft From The Person	36
Drugs	34
Criminal Damage Arson	31
Public Order	28
Burglary	24
Shoplifting	22
Other Crime	13
Robbery	7
Bicycle Theft	6
All Crime	620

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 Kenton. 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 Kenton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greenhill (1.24 miles)	711
Harrow (1.86 miles)	708
North Wembley (1.24 miles)	689
Wealdstone (1.39 miles)	595
Kenton	563
Belmont (1.39 miles)	503
Little Stanmore (1.39 miles)	400
Harrow Weald (1.75 miles)	398
Canons Park (1.96 miles)	369
Harrow on the Hill (1.75 miles)	369

Where are the most violent places near Kenton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Wealdstone	270
North Wembley	204
Harrow Weald	190
Kenton	184
Harrow	167
Greenhill	160
Belmont	129
Harrow on the Hill	114
Little Stanmore	96
Canons Park	94

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

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 Kenton 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 Kenton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Queensbury	60
2	Barnhill	58
3	Preston	55
4	Greenhill	54
5	Harrow on the Hill	52
6	Marlborough	50
7	Kenton	43
8	Kenton East	38
9	Queensbury	37
10	Kenton West	36
11	West Harrow	33

Which road in Kenton has the highest level of crime?

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