Crime and Safety in Holland Park, Kensington and Chelsea
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Holland Park are violence and sexual offences, with 224 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 19. This is 4.7% lower than 2025's figure of 235 offences and a difference of 0.91 from 2025's crime rate of 20. Holland Park's least common crime is other crime, with 6 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 50% from 2025's figure of 4 crimes.
Holland Park 2026 Crime Scorecard
40% lower, borough crime rate
London
0.08% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Kensington and Chelsea is 40% lower than London and 0.08% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Kensington and Chelsea Crime Rate Over Time
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Holland Park Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Holland 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 Holland Park's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Holland Park up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Holland Park's 61 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
Holland Park • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Holland Park has a crime risk score of 587. This is based on analysis of 61 nearby areas within Holland 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 Holland Park's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Holland Park, crime risk scores are typically around 587, while in Kensington and Chelsea they are average 676.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 706 (744 for Kensington and Chelsea), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 782 (Kensington and Chelsea 777).
Trends in Crime Risk
Holland 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 Holland 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 Holland Park's crime risk score is up by 15%. 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, Holland Park's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 9%, 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
Holland 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
Holland 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.
Vehicle Crime offences have a crime rate of 11 reports per 1,000 people in Holland Park, which is 2.63 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 136 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 45 reports of Theft From the Person in Holland Park, resulting in a crime rate of 3.73 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.41.
The crime rate for Burglary is 1.92 times the national average at 6.01 reports per 1,000. This is from 72 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Holland 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.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.52 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.27 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 93% 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.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.15 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.40 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 62% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Holland Park
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.80 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 2.78 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 71% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.35 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 2.38 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 85% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.38 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.16 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 138% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Holland 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 | 228 | 18.98 | 1.34 | 4,985 | 27.30 | 1.93 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 19 | 1.58 | 2.82 | 350 | 1.91 | 2.62 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 72 | 6.01 | 1.92 | 1,221 | 6.68 | 2.13 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 57 | 4.74 | 0.75 | 1,036 | 5.67 | 0.90 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 31 | 2.57 | 1.00 | 1,196 | 6.57 | 2.13 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 6 | 0.49 | 0.63 | 174 | 0.96 | 0.52 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 133 | 11.08 | 1.95 | 2,988 | 16.36 | 2.88 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 8 | 0.65 | 1.33 | 126 | 0.68 | 0.80 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 82 | 6.82 | 1.18 | 1,349 | 7.38 | 1.27 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 16 | 1.32 | 1.36 | 595 | 3.27 | 2.77 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 37 | 3.08 | 0.47 | 3,501 | 19.17 | 2.69 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 45 | 3.73 | 2.41 | 1,943 | 10.65 | 6.87 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 136 | 11.32 | 2.63 | 2,156 | 11.82 | 2.75 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 224 | 18.65 | 0.61 | 5,201 | 28.48 | 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 | 866 | 72.04 | 1.04 | 21,836 | 119.60 | 1.66 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 912 | 76.49 | 1.06 | 22,275 | 123.15 | 1.66 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 952 | 79.61 | 1.10 | 23,287 | 127.36 | 1.69 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 878 | 71.66 | 0.93 | 20,691 | 111.82 | 1.42 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 861 | 68.11 | 0.91 | 19,521 | 105.46 | 1.37 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 829 | 65.77 | 0.98 | 16,163 | 86.78 | 1.27 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 1,165 | 93.16 | 1.30 | 21,939 | 116.50 | 1.57 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 991 | 79.02 | 1.07 | 21,724 | 114.07 | 1.50 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 953 | 76.13 | 1.10 | 21,262 | 110.85 | 1.56 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 889 | 70.85 | 1.13 | 20,067 | 103.34 | 1.62 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 255 | 20.29 | 1.09 | 5,907 | 30.29 | 1.59 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Holland Park Compared to Other Kensington and Chelsea Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| South Kensington | 2,348 | 78.59 | 9% more dangerous |
| Kensington Palace Gardens | 848 | 89.17 | 24% more dangerous |
| Earl's Court | 2,154 | 129.17 | 79% more dangerous |
| Notting Hill | 5,803 | 174.42 | 142% more dangerous |
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Crime in Kensington and Chelsea