Crime Statistics for Harlesden, London, Ealing, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harlesden in October 2024. There were a total of 667 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 Harlesden, 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	155
Anti Social Behaviour	151
Vehicle Crime	60
Drugs	56
Other Theft	41
Public Order	41
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Theft From The Person	31
Burglary	28
Shoplifting	26
Robbery	25
Other Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	667

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 Harlesden. 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 Harlesden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kensal Green (1.39 miles)	1786
Tokyngton (1.39 miles)	1231
College Park (0.88 miles)	899
Lower Place (0.62 miles)	803
Neasden (1.24 miles)	791
Brondesbury Park (1.24 miles)	778
Dudden Hill (1.39 miles)	733
Harlesden	667
Park Royal (1.39 miles)	648
Stonebridge (0.62 miles)	550

Where are the most violent places near Harlesden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kensal Green	408
Dudden Hill	296
College Park	287
Tokyngton	285
Neasden	255
Lower Place	229
Park Royal	158
Harlesden	155
Brondesbury Park	143
Stonebridge	132

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

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 Harlesden 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 Harlesden compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harlesden and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Harlesden is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stonebridge	83
2	Harlesden	82
3	Kensal Green	75
4	Brondesbury Park	74
5	Willesden Green	74
6	Wormholt and White City	71
7	Queens Park	67
8	Acton Central	64
9	East Acton	63
10	College Park and Old Oak	62
11	Hanger Hill	44

Which road in Harlesden has the highest level of crime?

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