Crime and Safety in Kennington, Lambeth
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Kennington are violence and sexual offences, with 280 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 23. This is 3.1% lower than 2025's figure of 289 offences and a difference of 0.80 from 2025's crime rate of 24. Kennington's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 10 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 67% from 2025's figure of 6 crimes.
Kennington 2026 Crime Scorecard
25% lower, borough crime rate
London
8% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Lambeth is 25% lower than London and 8% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Lambeth Crime Rate Over Time
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Kennington Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Kennington 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 Kennington's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Kennington up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Kennington's 1 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
Kennington • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Kennington has a crime risk score of 712. This is based on analysis of 1 nearby areas within Kennington, 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 Kennington's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Kennington, crime risk scores are typically around 712, while in Lambeth they are average 639.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 799 (711 for Lambeth), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 845 (Lambeth 750).
Trends in Crime Risk
Kennington
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 Kennington'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 Kennington's crime risk score is up by 41%. 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, Kennington's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 0.62%, 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
Kennington
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
Kennington • 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 Kennington, which is 8.96 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 166 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 62 reports of Robbery in Kennington, resulting in a crime rate of 5.19 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 4.40.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 1.91 times the national average at 0.82 reports per 1,000. This is from 10 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Kennington
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.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 9.00 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 0.62 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 1352% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 4.20 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 an increase of 51% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.09 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.19 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 8% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Kennington
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.23 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 0.39 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 41% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Kennington • 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 | 253 | 21.19 | 1.50 | 9,802 | 26.78 | 1.90 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 34 | 2.83 | 4.22 | 925 | 2.52 | 3.45 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 53 | 4.44 | 1.42 | 1,790 | 4.90 | 1.57 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 56 | 4.69 | 0.75 | 2,182 | 5.94 | 0.95 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 59 | 4.94 | 1.75 | 1,813 | 4.94 | 1.60 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 17 | 1.41 | 1.02 | 442 | 1.22 | 0.66 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 90 | 7.53 | 1.32 | 4,425 | 12.07 | 2.12 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 10 | 0.82 | 1.91 | 297 | 0.80 | 0.94 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 39 | 3.27 | 0.56 | 2,282 | 6.22 | 1.07 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 62 | 5.19 | 4.40 | 1,750 | 4.78 | 4.05 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 37 | 3.07 | 0.43 | 3,563 | 9.73 | 1.36 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 166 | 13.89 | 8.96 | 4,944 | 13.48 | 8.70 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 27 | 2.23 | 0.52 | 2,520 | 6.86 | 1.60 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 280 | 23.44 | 0.77 | 10,909 | 29.78 | 0.98 | 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 | 930 | 77.75 | 1.10 | 37,842 | 103.24 | 1.43 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 800 | 67.26 | 0.98 | 37,306 | 102.08 | 1.38 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 723 | 60.40 | 0.85 | 36,039 | 98.37 | 1.30 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 752 | 62.40 | 0.83 | 32,822 | 89.57 | 1.13 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 677 | 56.38 | 0.78 | 31,641 | 86.38 | 1.12 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 702 | 57.49 | 0.89 | 28,631 | 77.28 | 1.13 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 860 | 68.94 | 0.96 | 31,799 | 85.15 | 1.15 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 978 | 77.39 | 1.05 | 34,551 | 92.06 | 1.21 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 838 | 64.19 | 0.92 | 34,355 | 91.60 | 1.29 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 907 | 69.91 | 1.12 | 33,984 | 90.39 | 1.41 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 239 | 18.63 | 1.03 | 10,805 | 28.66 | 1.50 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Kennington Compared to Other Lambeth Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
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