Crime and Safety in Richmond, Richmond upon Thames
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Richmond are violence and sexual offences, with 308 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 17. This is 3.0% higher than 2025's figure of 299 offences and a difference of 0.50 from 2025's crime rate of 16. Richmond's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 4 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 20% from 2025's figure of 5 crimes.
Richmond 2026 Crime Scorecard
11% higher, borough crime rate
London
17% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Richmond upon Thames is 11% higher than London and 17% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Richmond upon Thames Crime Rate Over Time
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Richmond Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Richmond 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 Richmond's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Richmond up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Richmond'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
Richmond • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Richmond has a crime risk score of 411. This is based on analysis of 10 nearby areas within Richmond, 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 Richmond's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Richmond, crime risk scores are typically around 411, while in Richmond upon Thames they are average 389.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 447 (494 for Richmond upon Thames), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 478 (Richmond upon Thames 559).
Trends in Crime Risk
Richmond
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 24% in Richmond'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.
The five-year trend may be static; no significant trend was identified in Richmond's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Richmond's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 8%, 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
Richmond
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
Richmond • 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 2.52 reports per 1,000 people in Richmond, which is 2.15 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 46 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 139 reports of Vehicle Crime in Richmond, resulting in a crime rate of 7.62 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.77.
The crime rate for Burglary is 1.36 times the national average at 4.26 reports per 1,000. This is from 78 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Richmond
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.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.54 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.29 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 86% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.74 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.76 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 2.6% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.96 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 0.76 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 26% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Richmond
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.03 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 2.07 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 1.9% over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.70 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.60 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 17% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.38 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 3.03 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 54% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Richmond • 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 | 344 | 18.83 | 1.33 | 3,164 | 14.67 | 1.04 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 33 | 1.80 | 2.47 | 369 | 1.72 | 2.36 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 78 | 4.26 | 1.36 | 885 | 4.10 | 1.31 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 76 | 4.13 | 0.66 | 1,078 | 5.00 | 0.80 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 29 | 1.56 | 0.61 | 551 | 2.56 | 0.83 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 8 | 0.42 | 0.45 | 154 | 0.71 | 0.38 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 110 | 6.01 | 1.06 | 1,047 | 4.86 | 0.85 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 4 | 0.20 | 0.71 | 48 | 0.20 | 0.24 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 73 | 4.00 | 0.69 | 861 | 3.98 | 0.69 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 26 | 1.40 | 1.30 | 242 | 1.14 | 0.97 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 167 | 9.15 | 1.28 | 1,143 | 5.30 | 0.74 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 46 | 2.52 | 2.15 | 262 | 1.22 | 0.79 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 139 | 7.62 | 1.77 | 1,604 | 7.44 | 1.73 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 308 | 16.86 | 0.55 | 3,394 | 15.73 | 0.52 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Richmond | Richmond upon Thames | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 1,097 | 59.93 | 0.86 | 11,638 | 53.96 | 0.75 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 1,333 | 72.74 | 1.00 | 12,038 | 56.05 | 0.76 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,272 | 68.60 | 0.93 | 11,879 | 55.34 | 0.73 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 1,331 | 69.91 | 0.90 | 11,560 | 53.90 | 0.68 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 1,478 | 77.57 | 1.03 | 11,236 | 52.54 | 0.68 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 1,110 | 57.55 | 0.86 | 11,692 | 54.24 | 0.79 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 1,339 | 68.43 | 0.95 | 11,930 | 55.07 | 0.74 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 1,699 | 87.52 | 1.16 | 12,968 | 59.97 | 0.79 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 1,555 | 80.58 | 1.16 | 13,039 | 60.19 | 0.85 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 1,244 | 64.72 | 1.03 | 11,756 | 54.22 | 0.85 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 414 | 21.58 | 1.17 | 3,453 | 15.97 | 0.84 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Richmond Compared to Other Richmond upon Thames Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| East Sheen | 192 | 45.56 | 24% safer |
| St. Margaret's | 1,082 | 49.54 | 17% safer |
| North Sheen | 795 | 49.95 | 17% safer |
| Mortlake | 780 | 59.91 | 0.03% safer |
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Crime in Richmond upon Thames