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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kensal Town in September 2024. There were a total of 1403 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	359
Violent Crime	312
Other Theft	122
Shoplifting	88
Vehicle Crime	84
Theft From The Person	83
Burglary	78
Public Order	67
Criminal Damage Arson	63
Drugs	55
Robbery	41
Bicycle Theft	34
Other Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	7
All Crime	1403

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 Kensal Town. 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 Kensal Town

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kilburn (0.62 miles)	2537
Notting Hill (1.24 miles)	1759
Kensal Rise (0.62 miles)	1699
Maida Vale (0.62 miles)	1695
Brondesbury (1.24 miles)	1629
North Kensington (0.88 miles)	1502
Kensal Green (0.62 miles)	1458
Kensal Town	1403
Brondesbury Park (0.88 miles)	827
College Park (1.24 miles)	665

Where are the most violent places near Kensal Town?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kensal Green	498
Kilburn	487
Kensal Rise	416
Notting Hill	361
Brondesbury	359
North Kensington	357
Maida Vale	335
Kensal Town	312
Brondesbury Park	198
College Park	193

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

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 Kensal Town 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 Kensal Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kensal Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Kensal Town is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Golborne	91
2	Colville	84
3	St. Helen's	78
4	Notting Dale	76
5	Pembridge	75
6	Bayswater	74
7	Norland	73
8	Westbourne	68
9	Harrow Road	67
10	Dalgarno	67
11	Queen's Park	67

Which road in Kensal Town has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Kensal Town with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around St Helens Gardens.