Crime and Safety in Clare Market, Westminster
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in Clare Market is other theft, with 19 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 3.8. This is 6% higher than 2025's figure of 18 offences and a difference of 0.25 from 2025's crime rate of 3.6. Clare Market's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 0 offences recorded in 2026.
Clare Market 2026 Crime Scorecard
90% lower, borough crime rate
London
83% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Westminster is 90% lower than London and 83% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Westminster Crime Rate Over Time
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Clare Market Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Clare Market 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 Clare Market's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Clare Market up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Clare Market's 87 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
Clare Market • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Clare Market has a crime risk score of 305. This is based on analysis of 87 nearby areas within Clare Market, 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 Clare Market's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Clare Market, crime risk scores are typically around 305, while in Westminster they are average 690.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 436 (761 for Westminster), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 629 (Westminster 804).
Trends in Crime Risk
Clare Market
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 Clare Market'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 Clare Market's crime risk score is up by 86%. 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, Clare Market's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 13%, 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
Clare Market
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
Clare Market • 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 2.44 reports per 1,000 people in Clare Market, which is 2.14 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 12 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 2 reports of Robbery in Clare Market, resulting in a crime rate of 0.41 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.05.
The crime rate for Burglary is 1.00 times the national average at 1.02 reports per 1,000. This is from 5 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Clare Market
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 0.09 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.07 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 29% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.10 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 2.11 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 0.47% over this timeframe.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 3.42 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 1.46 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 134% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Clare Market
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Clare Market • 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 | 4 | 0.81 | 0.17 | 13,374 | 22.23 | 1.57 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 4 | 0.81 | 4.05 | 935 | 1.56 | 2.14 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 5 | 1.02 | 1.00 | 2,618 | 4.36 | 1.39 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 3 | 0.62 | 0.58 | 2,216 | 3.68 | 0.59 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 2 | 0.42 | 0.86 | 2,933 | 4.90 | 1.59 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 1 | 0.20 | 1.33 | 487 | 0.79 | 0.43 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 19 | 3.85 | 0.91 | 15,647 | 26.00 | 4.57 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | - | - | - | 357 | 0.61 | 0.72 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 3 | 0.61 | 0.43 | 3,643 | 6.06 | 1.04 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.41 | 2.05 | 2,960 | 4.93 | 4.18 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 1 | 0.20 | 0.34 | 8,025 | 13.34 | 1.87 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 12 | 2.44 | 2.14 | 19,993 | 33.21 | 21 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | - | - | - | 2,950 | 4.90 | 1.14 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 7 | 1.43 | 0.08 | 12,434 | 20.68 | 0.68 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Clare Market | Westminster | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 59 | 12.01 | 0.43 | 75,198 | 125.02 | 1.74 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 60 | 12.13 | 0.67 | 84,643 | 140.59 | 1.90 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 61 | 11.97 | 0.53 | 88,968 | 147.25 | 1.95 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 82 | 15.67 | 0.41 | 78,518 | 128.70 | 1.63 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 90 | 16.95 | 0.61 | 58,005 | 94.08 | 1.22 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 62 | 11.24 | 0.47 | 35,055 | 56.33 | 0.82 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 102 | 25.54 | 0.86 | 65,976 | 104.48 | 1.41 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 127 | 34.46 | 0.75 | 68,821 | 108.65 | 1.42 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 145 | 39.15 | 1.04 | 55,337 | 86.22 | 1.21 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 152 | 45.32 | 1.25 | 49,364 | 76.37 | 1.19 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 40 | 12.72 | 1.47 | 15,072 | 23.30 | 1.22 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Clare Market Compared to Other Westminster Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
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