Crime and Safety in Kensington Palace Gardens, Kensington and Chelsea
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Kensington Palace Gardens are violence and sexual offences, with 190 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 20. This is 7% higher than 2025's figure of 177 offences and a difference of 1.30 from 2025's crime rate of 19. Kensington Palace Gardens's least common crime is other crime, with 4 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 20% from 2025's figure of 5 crimes.
Kensington Palace Gardens 2026 Crime Scorecard
25% lower, borough crime rate
London
24% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Kensington and Chelsea is 25% lower than London and 24% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Kensington and Chelsea Crime Rate Over Time
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Kensington Palace Gardens Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Kensington Palace Gardens 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 Kensington Palace Gardens's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Kensington Palace Gardens up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Kensington Palace Gardens's 4 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
Kensington Palace Gardens • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Kensington Palace Gardens has a crime risk score of 647. This is based on analysis of 4 nearby areas within Kensington Palace Gardens, 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 Kensington Palace Gardens's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Kensington Palace Gardens, crime risk scores are typically around 647, while in Kensington and Chelsea they are average 676.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 725 (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
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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 Kensington Palace Gardens'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 Kensington Palace Gardens's crime risk score is up by 20%. 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, Kensington Palace Gardens's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 5%, 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
Kensington Palace Gardens
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
Kensington Palace Gardens • 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 9.87 reports per 1,000 people in Kensington Palace Gardens, which is 6.37 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 94 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 68 reports of Burglary in Kensington Palace Gardens, resulting in a crime rate of 7.16 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.29.
The crime rate for Vehicle Crime is 1.76 times the national average at 7.56 reports per 1,000. This is from 72 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
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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.
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.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.47 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.38 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 24% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 3.04 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 2.47 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 23% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
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Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Theft From the Person offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 4.33 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 20 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 79% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 3.10 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 1.22 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 154% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.89 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 1.06 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 78% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Kensington Palace Gardens • 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 | 181 | 19.01 | 1.35 | 4,985 | 27.30 | 1.93 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 17 | 1.79 | 2.71 | 350 | 1.91 | 2.62 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 68 | 7.16 | 2.29 | 1,221 | 6.68 | 2.13 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 48 | 5.07 | 0.81 | 1,036 | 5.67 | 0.90 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 13 | 1.38 | 0.75 | 1,196 | 6.57 | 2.13 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 4 | 0.44 | 0.71 | 174 | 0.96 | 0.52 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 148 | 15.56 | 2.73 | 2,988 | 16.36 | 2.88 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 6 | 0.64 | 1.73 | 126 | 0.68 | 0.80 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 64 | 6.70 | 1.16 | 1,349 | 7.38 | 1.27 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 14 | 1.46 | 1.68 | 595 | 3.27 | 2.77 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 110 | 11.56 | 1.62 | 3,501 | 19.17 | 2.69 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 94 | 9.87 | 6.37 | 1,943 | 10.65 | 6.87 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 72 | 7.56 | 1.76 | 2,156 | 11.82 | 2.75 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 190 | 19.98 | 0.66 | 5,201 | 28.48 | 0.94 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Kensington Palace Gardens | Kensington and Chelsea | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 848 | 89.17 | 1.30 | 21,836 | 119.60 | 1.66 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 901 | 96.16 | 1.34 | 22,275 | 123.15 | 1.66 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,313 | 139.41 | 1.93 | 23,287 | 127.36 | 1.69 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 1,076 | 112.32 | 1.49 | 20,691 | 111.82 | 1.42 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 1,012 | 106.15 | 1.45 | 19,521 | 105.46 | 1.37 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 550 | 57.64 | 0.90 | 16,163 | 86.78 | 1.27 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 955 | 100.83 | 1.43 | 21,939 | 116.50 | 1.57 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 892 | 93.18 | 1.26 | 21,724 | 114.07 | 1.50 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 759 | 78.71 | 1.19 | 21,262 | 110.85 | 1.56 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 806 | 80.99 | 1.31 | 20,067 | 103.34 | 1.62 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 244 | 24.17 | 1.35 | 5,907 | 30.29 | 1.59 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Kensington Palace Gardens Compared to Other Kensington and Chelsea Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Holland Park | 866 | 72.04 | 19% safer |
| South Kensington | 2,348 | 78.59 | 12% safer |
| Notting Hill | 5,803 | 174.42 | 96% more dangerous |
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