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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for North Kensington in August 2024. There were a total of 1672 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 North Kensington, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime446
Anti Social Behaviour353
Drugs205
Theft From The Person115
Public Order96
Other Theft91
Shoplifting76
Criminal Damage Arson71
Vehicle Crime65
Burglary53
Robbery41
Possession Of Weapons25
Bicycle Theft20
Other Crime15
All Crime1672

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Maida Vale (1.39 miles)3870
Bayswater (1.39 miles)2910
Kensal Green (0.62 miles)2316
Shepherd’s Bush (0.88 miles)1947
Kensal Town (0.88 miles)1935
Notting Hill (0.88 miles)1860
Brook Green (1.24 miles)1731
North Kensington1672
Brondesbury Park (1.24 miles)1363
College Park (0.88 miles)789

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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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Maida Vale990
Kensal Green598
Bayswater521
Shepherd’s Bush483
Kensal Town479
North Kensington446
Notting Hill391
Brook Green388
Brondesbury Park388
College Park259

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.

#WardScore
1Colville84
2St. Helen's78
3Notting Dale76
4Norland73
5Addison73
6Ravenscourt Park72
7Wormholt and White City71
8Shepherd's Bush Green69
9Dalgarno67
10Askew66
11Holland60

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 this marker.

Last updated: August 2024
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