Crime Statistics for North Kensington, London, Hammersmith and Fulham, 2024

Is North Kensington rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 1568 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	326
Violent Crime	321
Shoplifting	210
Other Theft	129
Vehicle Crime	98
Theft From The Person	98
Public Order	93
Criminal Damage Arson	77
Drugs	66
Burglary	61
Robbery	44
Bicycle Theft	29
Other Crime	11
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	1568

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 North Kensington. 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 North Kensington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Notting Hill (0.88 miles)	3386
Bayswater (1.39 miles)	3132
Kensal Green (0.62 miles)	1786
Brook Green (1.24 miles)	1608
North Kensington	1568
Maida Vale (1.39 miles)	1565
Kensal Town (0.88 miles)	1434
Shepherd’s Bush (0.88 miles)	1265
College Park (0.88 miles)	899
Brondesbury Park (1.24 miles)	778

Where are the most violent places near North Kensington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Notting Hill	761
Bayswater	547
Maida Vale	462
Kensal Green	408
Brook Green	375
North Kensington	321
College Park	287
Shepherd’s Bush	284
Kensal Town	277
Brondesbury Park	143

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

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 North Kensington 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 North Kensington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Colville	84
2	St. Helen's	78
3	Notting Dale	76
4	Norland	73
5	Addison	73
6	Ravenscourt Park	72
7	Wormholt and White City	71
8	Shepherd's Bush Green	69
9	Dalgarno	67
10	Askew	66
11	Holland	60

Which road in North Kensington has the highest level of crime?

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