Crime Statistics for Brent, London, Ealing, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brent in September 2024. There were a total of 352 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 Brent, 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	89
Anti Social Behaviour	78
Vehicle Crime	47
Other Theft	32
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Public Order	17
Drugs	15
Burglary	11
Shoplifting	11
Robbery	9
Theft From The Person	7
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	352

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 Brent. 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 Brent

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stonebridge (1.45 miles)	815
Ealing (1.67 miles)	811
Acton (2.15 miles)	664
Harlesden (2.06 miles)	625
Tokyngton (1.19 miles)	584
Lower Place (1.45 miles)	527
Park Royal (0.89 miles)	476
Alperton (0.31 miles)	424
Brent	352
Grand Union Canal (1.19 miles)	312

Where are the most violent places near Brent?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stonebridge	261
Harlesden	178
Tokyngton	162
Lower Place	144
Ealing	131
Grand Union Canal	118
Park Royal	108
Alperton	108
Acton	107
Brent	89

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

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 Brent 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 Brent compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Acton Central	64
2	Wembley Central	63
3	Sudbury	59
4	Walpole	58
5	Hobbayne	51
6	Cleveland	48
7	Alperton	47
8	North Greenford	47
9	Ealing Broadway	47
10	Hanger Hill	44
11	Perivale	41

Which road in Brent has the highest level of crime?

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