Crime Statistics for Hampstead, London, Camden, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hampstead in August 2024. There were a total of 796 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	266
Violent Crime	149
Burglary	77
Public Order	63
Vehicle Crime	53
Shoplifting	39
Theft From The Person	36
Robbery	30
Other Theft	27
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Drugs	17
Bicycle Theft	7
Possession Of Weapons	4
Other Crime	4
All Crime	796

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St John’s Wood (1.24 miles)	1674
Kentish Town (1.39 miles)	1641
South Hampstead (0.62 miles)	1462
Kilburn (1.75 miles)	1086
Maitland Park (1.39 miles)	1010
Brondesbury (1.39 miles)	966
Gospel Oak (1.24 miles)	930
Hampstead	796
Child’s Hill (1.39 miles)	758
Highgate (1.75 miles)	444

Where are the most violent places near Hampstead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St John’s Wood	473
Kilburn	458
Kentish Town	395
South Hampstead	284
Maitland Park	231
Child’s Hill	195
Gospel Oak	192
Brondesbury	191
Hampstead	149
Highgate	94

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

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 Hampstead 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 Hampstead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hampstead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hampstead is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kilburn	74
2	Kilburn	74
3	Gospel Oak	64
4	Maida Vale	59
5	Fortune Green	58
6	Belsize	58
7	West Hampstead	56
8	Swiss Cottage	54
9	Abbey Road	42
10	Hampstead Town	40
11	Frognal and Fitzjohns	34

Which road in Hampstead has the highest level of crime?

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