Crime Statistics for Heston, London, Hounslow, 2024

Is Heston rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 393 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 Heston, 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	128
Anti Social Behaviour	100
Other Theft	26
Vehicle Crime	26
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Public Order	24
Burglary	19
Drugs	13
Theft From The Person	9
Shoplifting	9
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	393

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 Heston. 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 Heston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Spring Grove (1.96 miles)	1154
Lampton (0.88 miles)	862
Dormer’s Wells (1.96 miles)	713
Isleworth (2.24 miles)	580
Crane (1.67 miles)	502
North Hyde (0.62 miles)	455
Norwood Green (0.88 miles)	399
Heston	393
Brentford End (2.48 miles)	370
Cranford (1.39 miles)	184

Where are the most violent places near Heston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Spring Grove	395
Lampton	245
Crane	204
Dormer’s Wells	188
Isleworth	163
North Hyde	140
Heston	128
Norwood Green	125
Brentford End	113
Cranford	42

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

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 Heston 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 Heston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Heston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Heston is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hounslow Central	85
2	Heston West	75
3	Heston Central	72
4	Hounslow Heath	71
5	Heathrow Villages	67
6	Hounslow West	66
7	Southall Green	64
8	Heston East	63
9	Osterley and Spring Grove	61
10	Cranford	58
11	Hounslow South	46

Which road in Heston has the highest level of crime?

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