Crime Statistics for Kensington, London, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 2025

Is Kensington rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1121 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 Kensington, 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	239
Anti Social Behaviour	216
Vehicle Crime	145
Other Theft	125
Shoplifting	68
Burglary	66
Theft From The Person	65
Criminal Damage Arson	53
Public Order	50
Drugs	40
Robbery	27
Other Crime	13
Bicycle Theft	11
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	1121

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes 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 Kensington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bayswater (0.62 miles)	2960
Chelsea (1.75 miles)	1673
Notting Hill (0.88 miles)	1638
Brompton (1.24 miles)	1527
Paddington (1.39 miles)	1386
South Kensington (0.88 miles)	1302
Brook Green (1.24 miles)	1236
Earl’s Court (0.62 miles)	1235
Kensington	1121
Knightsbridge (1.24 miles)	941

Where are the most violent places near Kensington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bayswater	1052
Chelsea	386
Earl’s Court	384
Notting Hill	292
Brook Green	282
South Kensington	270
Brompton	243
Kensington	239
Paddington	235
Knightsbridge	201

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in 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 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 Kensington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kensington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Kensington is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Addison	73
2	Earl's Court	70
3	Fulham Broadway	69
4	Redcliffe	60
5	Holland	60
6	North End	59
7	Avonmore and Brook Green	52
8	Courtfield	51
9	Abingdon	50
10	Campden	46
11	Queen's Gate	36

Which road in Kensington has the highest level of crime?

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