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

Is South Kensington rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1302 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 South 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	270
Anti Social Behaviour	234
Vehicle Crime	194
Other Theft	133
Shoplifting	122
Theft From The Person	79
Criminal Damage Arson	60
Public Order	53
Burglary	51
Drugs	37
Robbery	31
Bicycle Theft	17
Other Crime	15
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	1302

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 South 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 South Kensington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bayswater (1.39 miles)	2960
Chelsea (0.88 miles)	1673
Brompton (0.88 miles)	1527
Belgravia (1.39 miles)	1458
Sands End (1.24 miles)	1383
South Kensington	1302
Earl’s Court (0.62 miles)	1235
Kensington (0.88 miles)	1121
Parsons Green (1.39 miles)	1108
Knightsbridge (0.88 miles)	941

Where are the most violent places near South Kensington?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to South 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
Sands End	305
Parsons Green	291
South Kensington	270
Brompton	243
Kensington	239
Knightsbridge	201
Belgravia	187

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

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Kensington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Kensington is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Parsons Green and Walham	73
2	Earl's Court	70
3	Chelsea Riverside	70
4	Fulham Broadway	69
5	Town	62
6	Redcliffe	60
7	North End	59
8	Stanley	55
9	Sands End	53
10	Courtfield	51
11	Abingdon	50

Which road in South Kensington has the highest level of crime?

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