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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pimlico in September 2024. There were a total of 1152 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Theft From The Person.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pimlico, 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	256
Theft From The Person	233
Other Theft	172
Shoplifting	146
Robbery	68
Public Order	64
Criminal Damage Arson	59
Burglary	51
Vehicle Crime	45
Drugs	41
Other Crime	13
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1152

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 Pimlico. 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 Pimlico

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lambeth (0.62 miles)	1573
Belgravia (0.88 miles)	1481
Kennington (0.88 miles)	1389
South Lambeth (1.39 miles)	1239
Knightsbridge (1.39 miles)	1153
Brompton (1.39 miles)	1153
Pimlico	1152
St James (1.24 miles)	1025
Battersea (1.39 miles)	1000
Chelsea (1.39 miles)	893

Where are the most violent places near Pimlico?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St James	599
South Lambeth	471
Lambeth	296
Kennington	283
Battersea	270
Pimlico	256
Belgravia	231
Chelsea	223
Knightsbridge	187
Brompton	187

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

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 Pimlico 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 Pimlico compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pimlico and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pimlico is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Larkhall	80
2	Stockwell	64
3	Queenstown	60
4	Prince's	59
5	Royal Hospital	51
6	Brompton & Hans Town	48
7	Knightsbridge and Belgravia	46
8	Churchill	46
9	Tachbrook	46
10	Warwick	43
11	Vincent Square	25

Which road in Pimlico has the highest level of crime?

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