Crime and Safety in Brentford, Hounslow
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Brentford are violence and sexual offences, with 34 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 10. This is the same as 2025's figure of 34 offences and a difference of 1.16 from 2025's crime rate of 8. Brentford's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 1 offence recorded in 2026, a decrease of 67% from 2025's figure of 3 crimes.
Brentford 2026 Crime Scorecard
59% lower, borough crime rate
London
56% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Hounslow is 59% lower than London and 56% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Hounslow Crime Rate Over Time
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Brentford Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Brentford 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 Brentford's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Brentford up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Brentford's 86 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
Brentford • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Brentford has a crime risk score of 578. This is based on analysis of 86 nearby areas within Brentford, 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 Brentford's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Brentford, crime risk scores are typically around 578, while in Hounslow they are average 570.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 664 (640 for Hounslow), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 702 (Hounslow 690).
Trends in Crime Risk
Brentford
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 Brentford'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 Brentford's crime risk score is up by 29%. 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, Brentford's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 6%, 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
Brentford
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
Brentford • 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.
Robbery offences have a crime rate of 0.35 reports per 1,000 people in Brentford, which is 3.89 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 1 crime report logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 1 report of Possession of Weapons in Brentford, resulting in a crime rate of 0.25 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 3.57.
The crime rate for Burglary is 2.20 times the national average at 3.34 reports per 1,000. This is from 11 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Brentford
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.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 5.03 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 0.52 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 867% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Brentford
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.46 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 3.07 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 52% over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.30 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.37 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 251% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Brentford • 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 | 17 | 4.82 | 0.45 | 7,124 | 20.57 | 1.46 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 1 | 0.25 | 3.57 | 404 | 1.17 | 1.60 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 11 | 3.34 | 2.20 | 1,434 | 4.14 | 1.32 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 6 | 1.90 | 0.76 | 1,954 | 5.64 | 0.90 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 13 | 3.41 | 1.64 | 1,459 | 4.22 | 1.37 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 5 | 1.55 | 2.38 | 398 | 1.14 | 0.62 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 9 | 2.44 | 0.84 | 2,179 | 6.31 | 1.11 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 1 | 0.25 | 3.57 | 190 | 0.55 | 0.65 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 7 | 1.83 | 0.73 | 2,070 | 5.98 | 1.03 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.35 | 3.89 | 604 | 1.75 | 1.48 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 2 | 0.50 | 0.43 | 2,842 | 8.22 | 1.15 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 3 | 0.75 | 1.83 | 931 | 2.69 | 1.74 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 18 | 5.50 | 1.54 | 2,742 | 7.93 | 1.84 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 34 | 9.56 | 0.34 | 9,537 | 27.55 | 0.91 | 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 | 111 | 31.63 | 0.70 | 26,744 | 77.29 | 1.07 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 118 | 27.95 | 0.59 | 25,373 | 73.45 | 0.99 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 115 | 26.50 | 0.55 | 26,987 | 79.23 | 1.05 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 77 | 17.74 | 0.37 | 23,971 | 71.09 | 0.90 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 64 | 15.02 | 0.44 | 23,155 | 68.98 | 0.90 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 65 | 15.22 | 0.46 | 22,388 | 66.18 | 0.97 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 87 | 20.67 | 0.51 | 24,259 | 71.53 | 0.96 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 81 | 18.20 | 0.43 | 25,769 | 75.97 | 1.00 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 101 | 22.45 | 0.60 | 24,965 | 74.16 | 1.04 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 74 | 16.82 | 0.57 | 22,897 | 68.60 | 1.07 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 25 | 5.75 | 0.67 | 6,915 | 20.78 | 1.09 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Brentford Compared to Other Hounslow Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Brentford End | 804 | 63.14 | 100% more dangerous |
| Brentford Dock | 669 | 76.39 | 142% more dangerous |
| Isleworth | 1,177 | 87.38 | 176% more dangerous |
| Old Brentford | 399 | 102.59 | 224% more dangerous |
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