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

Is Knightsbridge rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1326 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	263
Violent Crime	201
Other Theft	198
Theft From The Person	163
Anti Social Behaviour	138
Shoplifting	107
Criminal Damage Arson	65
Burglary	52
Public Order	44
Robbery	40
Drugs	31
Other Crime	16
Bicycle Theft	7
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	1326

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 Knightsbridge. 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 Knightsbridge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St James (1.39 miles)	8653
Mayfair (0.88 miles)	5308
Chelsea (1.24 miles)	1673
Brompton	1527
Belgravia (0.62 miles)	1458
Pimlico (1.39 miles)	1418
South Kensington (0.88 miles)	1302
Earl’s Court (1.39 miles)	1235
Kensington (1.24 miles)	1121
Knightsbridge	941

Where are the most violent places near Knightsbridge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St James	799
Chelsea	386
Earl’s Court	384
Mayfair	350
South Kensington	270
Brompton	243
Kensington	239
Pimlico	233
Knightsbridge	201
Belgravia	187

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

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 Knightsbridge 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 Knightsbridge compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Parsons Green and Walham	73
2	Earl's Court	70
3	Redcliffe	60
4	Stanley	55
5	Royal Hospital	51
6	Courtfield	51
7	Abingdon	50
8	Brompton & Hans Town	48
9	Knightsbridge and Belgravia	46
10	Warwick	43
11	Queen's Gate	36

Which road in Knightsbridge has the highest level of crime?

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