Crime Statistics for Paddington, London, City of Westminster, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Paddington in September 2024. There were a total of 2107 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 Paddington, 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	414
Anti Social Behaviour	348
Other Theft	294
Theft From The Person	260
Shoplifting	181
Vehicle Crime	154
Public Order	122
Criminal Damage Arson	90
Robbery	76
Drugs	61
Burglary	42
Bicycle Theft	34
Other Crime	21
Possession Of Weapons	10
All Crime	2107

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 Paddington. 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 Paddington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Marylebone (1.24 miles)	5010
Mayfair (1.39 miles)	4722
Regent’s Park (1.39 miles)	2991
Bayswater (0.88 miles)	2910
St John’s Wood (1.24 miles)	1880
Lisson Grove (0.88 miles)	1780
Notting Hill (1.39 miles)	1759
Maida Vale (0.88 miles)	1695
Kensal Town (1.39 miles)	1403
Paddington	1144

Where are the most violent places near Paddington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Marylebone	675
Bayswater	521
Mayfair	520
St John’s Wood	459
Paddington	414
Notting Hill	361
Regent’s Park	358
Maida Vale	335
Kensal Town	312
Lisson Grove	271

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

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 Paddington 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 Paddington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Lancaster Gate	76
2	Pembridge	75
3	Bayswater	74
4	Norland	73
5	Hyde Park	70
6	Church Street	69
7	Westbourne	68
8	Holland	60
9	Little Venice	50
10	Campden	46
11	Queen's Gate	36

Which road in Paddington has the highest level of crime?

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