Crime Statistics for Maida Vale, London, City of Westminster, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Maida Vale in September 2024. There were a total of 1695 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	418
Violent Crime	335
Other Theft	196
Theft From The Person	119
Vehicle Crime	109
Shoplifting	104
Burglary	99
Public Order	80
Criminal Damage Arson	78
Drugs	57
Bicycle Theft	40
Robbery	39
Other Crime	13
Possession Of Weapons	8
All Crime	1695

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 Maida Vale. 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 Maida Vale

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bayswater (1.24 miles)	2910
Kilburn (0.88 miles)	2537
St John’s Wood (0.88 miles)	1880
Lisson Grove (1.24 miles)	1780
Kensal Rise (0.88 miles)	1699
Maida Vale	1695
North Kensington (1.39 miles)	1502
Kensal Green (1.24 miles)	1458
Kensal Town (0.62 miles)	1403
Paddington (0.88 miles)	1144

Where are the most violent places near Maida Vale?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bayswater	521
Kensal Green	498
Kilburn	487
St John’s Wood	459
Kensal Rise	416
Paddington	414
North Kensington	357
Maida Vale	335
Kensal Town	312
Lisson Grove	271

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

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 Maida Vale 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 Maida Vale compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Golborne	91
2	Colville	84
3	St. Helen's	78
4	Pembridge	75
5	Bayswater	74
6	Norland	73
7	Westbourne	68
8	Harrow Road	67
9	Dalgarno	67
10	Queen's Park	67
11	Maida Vale	59

Which road in Maida Vale has the highest level of crime?

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