Crime and Safety in Notting Hill, Kensington and Chelsea
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in Notting Hill is shoplifting, with 1,583 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 48. This is 6% higher than 2025's figure of 1,498 offences and a difference of 2.46 from 2025's crime rate of 45. Notting Hill's least common crime is other crime, with 40 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 9% from 2025's figure of 44 crimes.
Notting Hill 2026 Crime Scorecard
46% higher, borough crime rate
London
142% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Kensington and Chelsea is 46% higher than London and 142% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Kensington and Chelsea Crime Rate Over Time
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Notting Hill Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Notting Hill 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 Notting Hill's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Notting Hill up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Notting Hill's 2 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
Notting Hill • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Notting Hill has a crime risk score of 738. This is based on analysis of 2 nearby areas within Notting Hill, 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 Notting Hill's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Notting Hill, crime risk scores are typically around 738, while in Kensington and Chelsea they are average 676.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 799 (744 for Kensington and Chelsea), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 823 (Kensington and Chelsea 777).
Trends in Crime Risk
Notting Hill
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 9% in Notting Hill'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 Notting Hill's crime risk score is up by 15%. 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, Notting Hill's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 2.9%, 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
Notting Hill
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
Notting Hill • 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 14 reports per 1,000 people in Notting Hill, which is 9.21 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 475 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 1,583 reports of Shoplifting in Notting Hill, resulting in a crime rate of 48 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 6.68.
The crime rate for Drugs is 4.98 times the national average at 15 reports per 1,000. This is from 511 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Notting Hill
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.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 5.35 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 2.26 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 137% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.88 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 1.31 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 44% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.89 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 2.05 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 8% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Notting Hill
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 7.00 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 8.54 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 18% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.50 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 4.89 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 69% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Notting Hill • 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 | 962 | 28.90 | 2.05 | 4,985 | 27.30 | 1.93 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 94 | 2.82 | 3.86 | 350 | 1.91 | 2.62 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 287 | 8.61 | 2.75 | 1,221 | 6.68 | 2.13 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 242 | 7.26 | 1.16 | 1,036 | 5.67 | 0.90 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 511 | 15.38 | 4.98 | 1,196 | 6.57 | 2.13 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 40 | 1.20 | 0.65 | 174 | 0.96 | 0.52 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 617 | 18.57 | 3.26 | 2,988 | 16.36 | 2.88 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 43 | 1.29 | 1.98 | 126 | 0.68 | 0.80 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 321 | 9.65 | 1.66 | 1,349 | 7.38 | 1.27 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 141 | 4.23 | 3.58 | 595 | 3.27 | 2.77 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 1,583 | 47.61 | 6.68 | 3,501 | 19.17 | 2.69 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 475 | 14.27 | 9.21 | 1,943 | 10.65 | 6.87 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 343 | 10.30 | 2.40 | 2,156 | 11.82 | 2.75 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 1,106 | 33.23 | 1.09 | 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 | 5,803 | 174.42 | 2.43 | 21,836 | 119.60 | 1.66 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 5,050 | 152.84 | 2.07 | 22,275 | 123.15 | 1.66 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 5,185 | 152.93 | 2.03 | 23,287 | 127.36 | 1.69 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 4,272 | 122.56 | 1.56 | 20,691 | 111.82 | 1.42 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 3,635 | 102.70 | 1.34 | 19,521 | 105.46 | 1.37 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 3,330 | 92.32 | 1.35 | 16,163 | 86.78 | 1.27 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 4,489 | 123.11 | 1.67 | 21,939 | 116.50 | 1.57 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 5,021 | 136.29 | 1.80 | 21,724 | 114.07 | 1.50 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 4,661 | 124.67 | 1.75 | 21,262 | 110.85 | 1.56 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 4,355 | 116.49 | 1.82 | 20,067 | 103.34 | 1.62 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 1,228 | 32.92 | 1.73 | 5,907 | 30.29 | 1.59 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Notting Hill 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 | 59% safer |
| Kensington Palace Gardens | 848 | 89.17 | 49% safer |
| Kensal Town | 622 | 95.66 | 45% safer |
| North Kensington | 2,174 | 110.01 | 37% safer |
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Crime in Kensington and Chelsea