Crime Statistics for St John’s Wood, London, City of Westminster, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St John’s Wood in October 2024. There were a total of 1487 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	399
Violent Crime	307
Other Theft	129
Theft From The Person	118
Vehicle Crime	110
Burglary	85
Criminal Damage Arson	70
Public Order	66
Shoplifting	61
Robbery	58
Drugs	36
Bicycle Theft	28
Other Crime	16
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1487

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 John’s Wood. 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 John’s Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lisson Grove (0.88 miles)	3732
Paddington (1.24 miles)	2614
Kentish Town (1.39 miles)	2118
Kilburn (1.24 miles)	1877
Kensal Rise (1.24 miles)	1779
Hampstead (1.24 miles)	1681
Maida Vale (0.88 miles)	1565
Maitland Park (1.39 miles)	1521
St John’s Wood	1487
South Hampstead (0.62 miles)	1261

Where are the most violent places near St John’s Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lisson Grove	600
Paddington	553
Kilburn	479
Kensal Rise	466
Maida Vale	462
Kentish Town	425
Hampstead	366
St John’s Wood	307
Maitland Park	257
South Hampstead	220

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in St John’s Wood?

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 John’s Wood 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 John’s Wood compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Golborne	91
2	Kilburn	74
3	Kilburn	74
4	Church Street	69
5	Westbourne	68
6	Harrow Road	67
7	Maida Vale	59
8	Swiss Cottage	54
9	Little Venice	50
10	Abbey Road	42
11	Regent's Park	42

Which road in St John’s Wood has the highest level of crime?

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