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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for North Kensington in September 2024. There were a total of 1502 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	376
Violent Crime	357
Shoplifting	136
Other Theft	115
Theft From The Person	76
Drugs	72
Public Order	71
Burglary	68
Criminal Damage Arson	67
Vehicle Crime	58
Bicycle Theft	50
Robbery	31
Other Crime	18
Possession Of Weapons	7
All Crime	1502

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 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
Bayswater (1.39 miles)	2910
Notting Hill (0.88 miles)	1759
Maida Vale (1.39 miles)	1695
Brook Green (1.24 miles)	1504
North Kensington	1502
Kensal Green (0.62 miles)	1458
Kensal Town (0.88 miles)	1403
Shepherd’s Bush (0.88 miles)	1220
Brondesbury Park (1.24 miles)	827
College Park (0.88 miles)	665

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
Bayswater	521
Kensal Green	498
Notting Hill	361
North Kensington	357
Brook Green	337
Maida Vale	335
Kensal Town	312
Shepherd’s Bush	261
Brondesbury Park	198
College Park	193

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.