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 August 2024. There were a total of 1782 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 St John’s Wood, 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	473
Anti Social Behaviour	430
Public Order	111
Vehicle Crime	108
Drugs	103
Theft From The Person	102
Other Theft	95
Criminal Damage Arson	90
Burglary	81
Shoplifting	78
Robbery	53
Possession Of Weapons	27
Bicycle Theft	16
Other Crime	15
All Crime	1782

Map of street level crime incidents in August 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
Maida Vale (0.88 miles)	3870
Paddington (1.24 miles)	2404
Kensal Rise (1.24 miles)	2400
St John’s Wood	1674
Lisson Grove (0.88 miles)	1654
Kentish Town (1.39 miles)	1641
South Hampstead (0.62 miles)	1462
Kilburn (1.24 miles)	1086
Maitland Park (1.39 miles)	1010
Hampstead (1.24 miles)	796

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
Maida Vale	990
Kensal Rise	648
Paddington	598
St John’s Wood	473
Kilburn	458
Kentish Town	395
Lisson Grove	293
South Hampstead	284
Maitland Park	231
Hampstead	149

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.