Crime Statistics for Bayswater, London, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bayswater in September 2024. There were a total of 3033 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	640
Violent Crime	521
Other Theft	394
Shoplifting	284
Theft From The Person	234
Vehicle Crime	184
Burglary	182
Public Order	144
Drugs	144
Criminal Damage Arson	122
Bicycle Theft	84
Robbery	58
Other Crime	28
Possession Of Weapons	14
All Crime	3033

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 Bayswater. 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 Bayswater

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maida Vale (1.24 miles)	3870
Bayswater	2910
Paddington (0.88 miles)	2404
Notting Hill (0.62 miles)	1860
North Kensington (1.39 miles)	1672
Brook Green (1.39 miles)	1504
Brompton (1.39 miles)	1153
Earl’s Court (1.24 miles)	1092
Kensington (0.62 miles)	1038
Knightsbridge (1.39 miles)	694

Where are the most violent places near Bayswater?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maida Vale	990
Paddington	598
Bayswater	521
North Kensington	446
Notting Hill	391
Brook Green	337
Earl’s Court	270
Knightsbridge	240
Kensington	226
Brompton	187

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

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 Bayswater 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 Bayswater compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Lancaster Gate	76
2	Pembridge	75
3	Bayswater	74
4	Norland	73
5	Addison	73
6	Earl's Court	70
7	Holland	60
8	Avonmore and Brook Green	52
9	Abingdon	50
10	Campden	46
11	Queen's Gate	36

Which road in Bayswater has the highest level of crime?

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