Crime Statistics for Chelsea, London, Kensington and Chelsea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chelsea in October 2024. There were a total of 1246 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 Chelsea, 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	299
Anti Social Behaviour	253
Other Theft	136
Vehicle Crime	121
Public Order	75
Criminal Damage Arson	62
Burglary	58
Drugs	56
Shoplifting	52
Theft From The Person	51
Bicycle Theft	33
Robbery	29
Other Crime	14
Possession Of Weapons	7
All Crime	1246

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 Chelsea. 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 Chelsea

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Belgravia (1.39 miles)	2529
South Kensington (0.88 miles)	2389
Sands End (0.88 miles)	1875
Pimlico (1.39 miles)	1770
Earl’s Court (1.39 miles)	1454
Knightsbridge (1.24 miles)	1286
Brompton (1.24 miles)	1286
Battersea (0.88 miles)	1134
Parsons Green (1.39 miles)	844
Chelsea	791

Where are the most violent places near Chelsea?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Kensington	624
Belgravia	434
Sands End	425
Earl’s Court	399
Chelsea	299
Pimlico	286
Parsons Green	255
Battersea	206
Knightsbridge	188
Brompton	188

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

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 Chelsea 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 Chelsea compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Latchmere	75
2	Parsons Green and Walham	73
3	Chelsea Riverside	70
4	Redcliffe	60
5	Queenstown	60
6	Shaftesbury	57
7	Stanley	55
8	Sands End	53
9	Royal Hospital	51
10	Courtfield	51
11	St Mary's Park	48

Which road in Chelsea has the highest level of crime?

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