Crime Statistics for St James, London, City of Westminster, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St James in October 2024. There were a total of 10384 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Theft From The Person, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Theft From The Person	4046
Other Theft	2130
Violent Crime	1215
Anti Social Behaviour	794
Shoplifting	676
Robbery	382
Vehicle Crime	316
Public Order	262
Criminal Damage Arson	164
Drugs	154
Burglary	126
Bicycle Theft	66
Other Crime	31
Possession Of Weapons	22
All Crime	10384

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Holborn (0.88 miles)	13008
St James	10640
London (1.39 miles)	10372
Marylebone (0.88 miles)	5892
Strand (0.62 miles)	4840
Belgravia (0.88 miles)	2529
Mayfair (0.62 miles)	2348
Pimlico (1.24 miles)	1770
Knightsbridge (1.39 miles)	1286
Brompton (1.39 miles)	1286

Where are the most violent places near St James?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Holborn	1421
London	1236
St James	1215
Strand	872
Marylebone	753
Belgravia	434
Mayfair	407
Pimlico	286
Knightsbridge	188
Brompton	188

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

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 St James 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 St James compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Prince's	59
2	West End	59
3	Bishop's	55
4	Brompton & Hans Town	48
5	Knightsbridge and Belgravia	46
6	Churchill	46
7	Tachbrook	46
8	Warwick	43
9	St James's	35
10	Marylebone High Street	30
11	Vincent Square	25

Which road in St James has the highest level of crime?

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