Crime and Safety in Knightsbridge, Kensington and Chelsea
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in Knightsbridge is shoplifting, with 595 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 38. This is the same as 2025's figure of 595 offences and a difference of 0.23 from 2025's crime rate of 37. Knightsbridge's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 9 offences recorded in 2026, the same as 2025's figure of 9 crimes.
Knightsbridge 2026 Crime Scorecard
41% higher, borough crime rate
London
135% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Kensington and Chelsea is 41% higher than London and 135% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Kensington and Chelsea Crime Rate Over Time
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Knightsbridge Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Knightsbridge 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 Knightsbridge's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Knightsbridge up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Knightsbridge's 10 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
Knightsbridge • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Knightsbridge has a crime risk score of 759. This is based on analysis of 10 nearby areas within Knightsbridge, 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 Knightsbridge's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Knightsbridge, crime risk scores are typically around 759, while in Kensington and Chelsea they are average 676.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 768 (744 for Kensington and Chelsea), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 787 (Kensington and Chelsea 777).
Trends in Crime Risk
Knightsbridge
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 an increase of 4.0% in Knightsbridge'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 Knightsbridge's crime risk score is up by 16%. 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, Knightsbridge's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 14%, 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
Knightsbridge
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
Knightsbridge • 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 21 reports per 1,000 people in Knightsbridge, which is 14 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 333 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 595 reports of Shoplifting in Knightsbridge, resulting in a crime rate of 38 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 5.28.
The crime rate for Vehicle Crime is 5.21 times the national average at 22 reports per 1,000. This is from 355 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Knightsbridge
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 1.06 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.69 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 54% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 4.65 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 3.40 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 37% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.81 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.39 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 108% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Knightsbridge
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 3.29 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 7.43 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 56% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Knightsbridge • 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 | 377 | 23.84 | 1.69 | 4,985 | 27.30 | 1.93 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 33 | 2.09 | 3.32 | 350 | 1.91 | 2.62 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 81 | 5.11 | 1.63 | 1,221 | 6.68 | 2.13 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 97 | 6.15 | 0.98 | 1,036 | 5.67 | 0.90 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 51 | 3.24 | 1.05 | 1,196 | 6.57 | 2.13 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 23 | 1.44 | 1.04 | 174 | 0.96 | 0.52 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 447 | 28.24 | 4.96 | 2,988 | 16.36 | 2.88 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 9 | 0.55 | 1.08 | 126 | 0.68 | 0.80 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 117 | 7.40 | 1.28 | 1,349 | 7.38 | 1.27 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 88 | 5.57 | 4.72 | 595 | 3.27 | 2.77 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 595 | 37.65 | 5.28 | 3,501 | 19.17 | 2.69 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 333 | 21.03 | 14 | 1,943 | 10.65 | 6.87 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 355 | 22.40 | 5.21 | 2,156 | 11.82 | 2.75 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 447 | 28.28 | 0.93 | 5,201 | 28.48 | 0.94 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Knightsbridge | Kensington and Chelsea | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 2,676 | 169.15 | 2.38 | 21,836 | 119.60 | 1.66 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 3,137 | 199.66 | 2.73 | 22,275 | 123.15 | 1.66 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 2,997 | 189.40 | 2.57 | 23,287 | 127.36 | 1.69 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 2,805 | 170.85 | 2.17 | 20,691 | 111.82 | 1.42 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 2,540 | 152.40 | 2.01 | 19,521 | 105.46 | 1.37 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 1,700 | 105.49 | 1.56 | 16,163 | 86.78 | 1.27 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 2,848 | 174.80 | 2.38 | 21,939 | 116.50 | 1.57 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 2,657 | 159.48 | 2.11 | 21,724 | 114.07 | 1.50 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 2,633 | 153.75 | 2.17 | 21,262 | 110.85 | 1.56 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 2,474 | 140.93 | 2.22 | 20,067 | 103.34 | 1.62 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 717 | 40.59 | 2.15 | 5,907 | 30.29 | 1.59 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Knightsbridge 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 | 54% safer |
| Chelsea | 3,224 | 113.06 | 33% safer |
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Crime in Kensington and Chelsea