Crime and Safety in Belsize Park, Camden
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Belsize Park are violence and sexual offences, with 242 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 30. This is 4.0% lower than 2025's figure of 252 offences and a difference of 1.24 from 2025's crime rate of 31. Belsize Park's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 6 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 20% from 2025's figure of 5 crimes.
Belsize Park 2026 Crime Scorecard
14% higher, borough crime rate
London
55% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Camden is 14% higher than London and 55% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Camden Crime Rate Over Time
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Belsize Park Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Belsize Park 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 Belsize Park's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Belsize Park up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Belsize Park's 2 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
Belsize Park • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Belsize Park has a crime risk score of 712. This is based on analysis of 2 nearby areas within Belsize Park, 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 Belsize Park's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Belsize Park, crime risk scores are typically around 712, while in Camden they are average 632.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 762 (708 for Camden), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 796 (Camden 761).
Trends in Crime Risk
Belsize Park
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.
No trend could be found in Belsize Park's crime risk scores over the last 10 years, and the trend may well be static.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Belsize Park's crime risk score is up by 21%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Over the last year, Belsize Park's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 0.43%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Belsize Park
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
Belsize Park • 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 7.46 reports per 1,000 people in Belsize Park, which is 4.81 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 61 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 Belsize Park, resulting in a crime rate of 3.66 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 3.39.
The crime rate for Burglary is 2.89 times the national average at 9.05 reports per 1,000. This is from 74 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Belsize Park
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.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.92 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.26 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 254% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.27 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.59 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 115% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Belsize Park
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.50 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.97 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 48% over this timeframe.
Theft From the Person offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.00 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 7.85 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 87% over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.22 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.60 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 63% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Belsize Park • 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 | 292 | 35.75 | 2.53 | 9,514 | 23.50 | 1.66 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 16 | 1.93 | 3.51 | 898 | 2.21 | 3.03 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 74 | 9.05 | 2.89 | 2,143 | 5.30 | 1.69 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 54 | 6.59 | 1.05 | 1,742 | 4.31 | 0.69 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 30 | 3.66 | 1.43 | 1,630 | 4.05 | 1.31 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 10 | 1.21 | 1.30 | 281 | 0.68 | 0.37 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 93 | 11.38 | 2.00 | 6,829 | 16.90 | 2.97 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 6 | 0.72 | 1.67 | 170 | 0.42 | 0.49 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 83 | 10.13 | 1.75 | 2,524 | 6.23 | 1.07 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 30 | 3.66 | 3.39 | 1,466 | 3.62 | 3.07 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 131 | 16.03 | 2.25 | 4,332 | 10.72 | 1.50 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 61 | 7.46 | 4.81 | 6,898 | 17.04 | 11 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 80 | 9.78 | 2.27 | 2,307 | 5.70 | 1.33 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 242 | 29.61 | 0.97 | 8,359 | 20.66 | 0.68 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Belsize Park | Camden | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 910 | 111.21 | 1.59 | 39,579 | 97.84 | 1.36 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 961 | 119.49 | 1.67 | 42,633 | 105.25 | 1.42 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 894 | 113.12 | 1.55 | 41,442 | 102.07 | 1.35 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 695 | 88.34 | 1.16 | 36,233 | 89.26 | 1.13 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 748 | 95.06 | 1.29 | 30,536 | 76.22 | 0.99 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 745 | 93.05 | 1.41 | 25,231 | 63.00 | 0.92 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 718 | 87.07 | 1.22 | 35,402 | 88.03 | 1.19 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 850 | 99.31 | 1.34 | 36,850 | 90.69 | 1.19 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 976 | 112.04 | 1.68 | 37,656 | 91.87 | 1.29 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 776 | 88.18 | 1.47 | 30,573 | 74.22 | 1.16 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 210 | 23.75 | 1.30 | 9,235 | 22.40 | 1.17 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Belsize Park Compared to Other Camden Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Kentish Town West | 226 | 64.11 | 42% safer |
| Primrose Hill | 583 | 71.97 | 35% safer |
| Gospel Oak | 381 | 82.41 | 26% safer |
| Swiss Cottage | 1,504 | 98.79 | 11% safer |
| Chalk Farm | 1,548 | 141.07 | 27% more dangerous |
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