Crime Statistics for Kensal Green, London, Hammersmith and Fulham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kensal Green in August 2024. There were a total of 2363 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 Kensal Green, 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	598
Anti Social Behaviour	473
Drugs	448
Theft From The Person	188
Other Theft	112
Public Order	110
Criminal Damage Arson	86
Burglary	82
Vehicle Crime	60
Robbery	54
Shoplifting	54
Possession Of Weapons	48
Bicycle Theft	28
Other Crime	22
All Crime	2363

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 Kensal Green. 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 Kensal Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maida Vale (1.24 miles)	3870
Kensal Rise (0.88 miles)	2400
Kensal Green	2316
Kensal Town (0.62 miles)	1935
Notting Hill (1.39 miles)	1860
North Kensington (0.62 miles)	1672
Brondesbury Park (0.62 miles)	1363
Kilburn (0.88 miles)	1086
College Park (0.62 miles)	789
Harlesden (1.39 miles)	521

Where are the most violent places near Kensal Green?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Kensal Green 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
Kensal Green	598
Kensal Town	479
Kilburn	458
North Kensington	446
Notting Hill	391
Brondesbury Park	388
College Park	259
Harlesden	168

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

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 Kensal Green 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 Kensal Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kensal Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Kensal Green is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Golborne	91
2	Colville	84
3	St. Helen's	78
4	Notting Dale	76
5	Norland	73
6	Wormholt and White City	71
7	Shepherd's Bush Green	69
8	Dalgarno	67
9	Queen's Park	67
10	Queens Park	67
11	College Park and Old Oak	62

Which road in Kensal Green has the highest level of crime?

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