Crime and Safety in Kensal Rise, Brent
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Kensal Rise are violence and sexual offences, with 194 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 22. This is 2.1% higher than 2025's figure of 190 offences and a difference of 0.45 from 2025's crime rate of 22. Kensal Rise's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 4 offences recorded in 2026, the same as 2025's figure of 4 crimes.
Kensal Rise 2026 Crime Scorecard
10% lower, borough crime rate
London
8% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Brent is 10% lower than London and 8% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Brent Crime Rate Over Time
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Kensal Rise Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Kensal Rise represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Kensal Rise's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Kensal Rise up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Kensal Rise's 17 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
Kensal Rise • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Kensal Rise has a crime risk score of 560. This is based on analysis of 17 nearby areas within Kensal Rise, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Kensal Rise's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Kensal Rise, crime risk scores are typically around 560, while in Brent they are average 589.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 693 (678 for Brent), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 783 (Brent 740).
Trends in Crime Risk
Kensal Rise
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates a decrease of 15% in Kensal Rise's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Kensal Rise's crime risk score is up by 7%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
The risk score trend over the last year has not shown any statistically meaningful movement up or down.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Kensal Rise
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Kensal Rise • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Theft From the Person offences have a crime rate of 5.49 reports per 1,000 people in Kensal Rise, which is 3.54 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 48 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 30 reports of Robbery in Kensal Rise, resulting in a crime rate of 3.41 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 3.16.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 3.00 times the national average at 0.45 reports per 1,000. This is from 4 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Kensal Rise
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.96 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.89 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 8% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.66 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.71 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 7% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Kensal Rise
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.63 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.90 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 30% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.94 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 3.39 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 13% over this timeframe.
Theft From the Person offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.92 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 1.77 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 48% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Kensal Rise • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 219 | 25.11 | 1.78 | 10,208 | 27.04 | 1.91 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 14 | 1.58 | 3.04 | 265 | 0.71 | 0.97 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 53 | 6.06 | 1.94 | 1,704 | 4.51 | 1.44 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 36 | 4.09 | 0.65 | 2,062 | 5.45 | 0.87 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 50 | 5.72 | 2.21 | 2,739 | 7.25 | 2.35 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 6 | 0.66 | 0.72 | 429 | 1.14 | 0.62 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 95 | 10.89 | 1.91 | 3,080 | 8.13 | 1.43 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 4 | 0.45 | 3.00 | 254 | 0.68 | 0.80 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 47 | 5.38 | 0.93 | 2,335 | 6.18 | 1.07 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 30 | 3.41 | 3.16 | 1,284 | 3.40 | 2.88 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 22 | 2.49 | 0.38 | 2,850 | 7.54 | 1.06 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 48 | 5.49 | 3.54 | 1,999 | 5.31 | 3.43 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 83 | 9.50 | 2.21 | 2,901 | 7.68 | 1.79 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 194 | 22.23 | 0.73 | 10,751 | 28.47 | 0.94 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 682 | 77.95 | 1.13 | 32,653 | 86.45 | 1.20 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 706 | 81.27 | 1.17 | 31,153 | 83.26 | 1.12 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 746 | 85.61 | 1.18 | 31,183 | 84.49 | 1.12 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 712 | 80.68 | 1.06 | 28,603 | 78.87 | 1.00 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 816 | 91.22 | 1.23 | 28,155 | 78.54 | 1.02 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 777 | 85.07 | 1.31 | 26,921 | 74.47 | 1.09 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 816 | 86.80 | 1.25 | 27,401 | 74.59 | 1.01 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 890 | 93.38 | 1.28 | 29,811 | 80.92 | 1.06 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 799 | 83.08 | 1.22 | 29,503 | 80.53 | 1.13 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 754 | 77.90 | 1.27 | 27,344 | 75.08 | 1.17 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 207 | 21.35 | 1.19 | 8,420 | 23.18 | 1.22 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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