Crime Statistics for Harlesden, London, Ealing, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Harlesden in September 2024. There were a total of 625 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	178
Anti Social Behaviour	136
Vehicle Crime	61
Other Theft	47
Public Order	39
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Shoplifting	29
Theft From The Person	28
Burglary	23
Drugs	20
Robbery	10
Bicycle Theft	9
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	625

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 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)	1458
Neasden (1.24 miles)	1437
Dudden Hill (1.39 miles)	899
Brondesbury Park (1.24 miles)	827
Stonebridge (0.62 miles)	815
College Park (0.88 miles)	665
Harlesden	625
Tokyngton (1.39 miles)	584
Lower Place (0.62 miles)	527
Park Royal (1.39 miles)	476

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	498
Neasden	394
Stonebridge	261
Dudden Hill	236
Brondesbury Park	198
College Park	193
Harlesden	178
Tokyngton	162
Lower Place	144
Park Royal	108

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 Craven Park Road.