Crime Statistics for Paddington, London, City of Westminster, 2025

Is Paddington rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1386 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 CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour311
Violent Crime235
Theft From The Person161
Other Theft150
Shoplifting113
Burglary91
Vehicle Crime87
Public Order63
Robbery53
Criminal Damage Arson45
Drugs42
Bicycle Theft21
Other Crime9
Possession Of Weapons5
All Crime1386

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Marylebone (1.24 miles)5790
Mayfair (1.39 miles)5308
Lisson Grove (0.88 miles)3189
Regent’s Park (1.39 miles)3115
Bayswater (0.88 miles)2960
Maida Vale (0.88 miles)1639
Notting Hill (1.39 miles)1638
Paddington1386
Kensal Town (1.39 miles)1268
St John’s Wood (1.24 miles)85

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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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Bayswater1052
Marylebone655
Lisson Grove532
Maida Vale361
Mayfair350
Regent’s Park328
Kensal Town306
Notting Hill292
Paddington235
St John’s Wood73

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.

#WardScore
1Lancaster Gate76
2Pembridge75
3Bayswater74
4Norland73
5Hyde Park70
6Church Street69
7Westbourne68
8Holland60
9Little Venice50
10Campden46
11Queen's Gate36

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 Poplar Place.

Last updated: January 2025
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