Crime and Safety in Parsons Green, Hammersmith and Fulham
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Parsons Green are violence and sexual offences, with 300 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 18. This is 1.4% higher than 2025's figure of 296 offences and a difference of 0.24 from 2025's crime rate of 17. Parsons Green's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 7 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 40% from 2025's figure of 5 crimes.
Parsons Green 2026 Crime Scorecard
14% lower, borough crime rate
London
1.3% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Hammersmith and Fulham is 14% lower than London and 1.3% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Hammersmith and Fulham Crime Rate Over Time
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Parsons Green Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Parsons Green 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 Parsons Green's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Parsons Green up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Parsons Green's 1 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
Parsons Green • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Parsons Green has a crime risk score of 516. This is based on analysis of 1 nearby areas within Parsons Green, 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 Parsons Green's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Parsons Green, crime risk scores are typically around 516, while in Hammersmith and Fulham they are average 554.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 600 (646 for Hammersmith and Fulham), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 671 (Hammersmith and Fulham 712).
Trends in Crime Risk
Parsons Green
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 21% in Parsons Green'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 Parsons Green's crime risk score is up by 12%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
Over the last year, Parsons Green's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 0.08%, indicating that the risk profile is going down. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Parsons Green
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
Parsons Green • 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 4.59 reports per 1,000 people in Parsons Green, which is 2.96 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 78 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 31 reports of Robbery in Parsons Green, resulting in a crime rate of 1.84 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.88.
The crime rate for Vehicle Crime is 1.70 times the national average at 7.30 reports per 1,000. This is from 124 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Parsons Green
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.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.00 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 0.92 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 117% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.85 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.92 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 0.58 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.90 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 36% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Parsons Green
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 3.20 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 2.43 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 32% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.21 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 1.57 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 23% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.80 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 2.00 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 10% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Parsons Green • 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 | 428 | 25.19 | 1.78 | 6,091 | 24.88 | 1.76 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 37 | 2.19 | 3.17 | 565 | 2.33 | 3.19 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 84 | 4.94 | 1.58 | 1,174 | 4.79 | 1.53 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 69 | 4.04 | 0.64 | 1,212 | 4.96 | 0.79 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 79 | 4.65 | 1.50 | 1,288 | 5.25 | 1.70 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 17 | 1.01 | 0.74 | 261 | 1.06 | 0.57 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 161 | 9.45 | 1.66 | 2,313 | 9.43 | 1.66 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 7 | 0.42 | 1.00 | 142 | 0.58 | 0.68 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 105 | 6.19 | 1.07 | 1,647 | 6.71 | 1.16 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 31 | 1.84 | 1.88 | 567 | 2.32 | 1.97 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 148 | 8.70 | 1.22 | 2,552 | 10.43 | 1.46 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 78 | 4.59 | 2.96 | 898 | 3.68 | 2.37 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 124 | 7.30 | 1.70 | 1,675 | 6.84 | 1.59 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 300 | 17.63 | 0.58 | 6,492 | 26.50 | 0.87 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Parsons Green | Hammersmith and Fulham | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 1,240 | 72.95 | 1.03 | 20,786 | 84.88 | 1.18 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 1,211 | 71.29 | 0.98 | 20,817 | 85.72 | 1.16 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,430 | 84.62 | 1.16 | 21,869 | 90.80 | 1.20 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 1,209 | 71.23 | 0.92 | 19,779 | 82.37 | 1.04 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 1,392 | 81.90 | 1.09 | 19,532 | 81.93 | 1.07 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 1,242 | 73.01 | 1.09 | 17,501 | 72.70 | 1.06 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 1,557 | 90.41 | 1.24 | 20,505 | 84.04 | 1.13 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 1,636 | 94.10 | 1.25 | 21,417 | 87.72 | 1.15 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 1,530 | 88.02 | 1.26 | 21,435 | 87.02 | 1.22 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 1,296 | 74.41 | 1.18 | 20,241 | 81.96 | 1.28 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 412 | 23.62 | 1.27 | 6,520 | 26.43 | 1.39 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Parsons Green Compared to Other Hammersmith and Fulham Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulham Palace | 712 | 48.84 | 33% safer |
| Hurlingham | 730 | 54.32 | 26% safer |
| West Kensington | 1,293 | 57.24 | 22% safer |
| Sands End | 907 | 58.14 | 20% safer |
| Walham Green | 1,115 | 115.26 | 58% more dangerous |
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