Crime and Safety in Hyde Park, Westminster
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in Hyde Park is theft from the person, with 224 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 179. This is 16% lower than 2025's figure of 267 offences and a difference of 31.35 from 2025's crime rate of 210. Hyde Park's least common crime is burglary, with 3 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 25% from 2025's figure of 4 crimes.
Hyde Park 2026 Crime Scorecard
463% higher, borough crime rate
London
879% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Westminster is 463% higher than London and 879% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Westminster Crime Rate Over Time
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Hyde Park Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Hyde Park 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 Hyde Park's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Hyde Park up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Hyde Park's 9 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
Hyde Park • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Hyde Park has a crime risk score of 860. This is based on analysis of 9 nearby areas within Hyde Park, 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 Hyde Park's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Hyde Park, crime risk scores are typically around 860, while in Westminster they are average 690.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 849 (761 for Westminster), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 846 (Westminster 804).
Trends in Crime Risk
Hyde Park
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 13% in Hyde Park'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 Hyde Park's crime risk score is up by 40%. 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, Hyde Park's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 6%, 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
Hyde Park
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
Hyde Park • 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 179 reports per 1,000 people in Hyde Park, which is 115 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 224 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 178 reports of Drugs in Hyde Park, resulting in a crime rate of 147 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 48.
The crime rate for Robbery is 37 times the national average at 44 reports per 1,000. This is from 55 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Hyde Park
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.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 24 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 12 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 109% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 4.86 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 1.76 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 176% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 11 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 6.34 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 67% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Hyde Park
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 59 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 45 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 31% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Hyde Park • 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 | 69 | 56.20 | 3.98 | 13,374 | 22.23 | 1.57 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 12 | 9.63 | 20 | 935 | 1.56 | 2.14 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 3 | 2.43 | 3.20 | 2,618 | 4.36 | 1.39 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 19 | 15.36 | 2.90 | 2,216 | 3.68 | 0.59 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 178 | 146.88 | 48 | 2,933 | 4.90 | 1.59 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 10 | 8.17 | 7.50 | 487 | 0.79 | 0.43 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 95 | 76.19 | 13 | 15,647 | 26.00 | 4.57 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 13 | 10.42 | 21 | 357 | 0.61 | 0.72 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 56 | 44.86 | 7.73 | 3,643 | 6.06 | 1.04 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 55 | 44.07 | 37 | 2,960 | 4.93 | 4.18 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 9 | 7.15 | 1.74 | 8,025 | 13.34 | 1.87 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 224 | 178.90 | 115 | 19,993 | 33.21 | 21 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 13 | 10.42 | 3.70 | 2,950 | 4.90 | 1.14 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 187 | 149.88 | 4.93 | 12,434 | 20.68 | 0.68 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Hyde Park | Westminster | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 874 | 704.36 | 11 | 75,198 | 125.02 | 1.74 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 823 | 658.56 | 11 | 84,643 | 140.59 | 1.90 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 865 | 701.42 | 11 | 88,968 | 147.25 | 1.95 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 610 | 486.90 | 8.24 | 78,518 | 128.70 | 1.63 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 120 | 92.09 | 1.97 | 58,005 | 94.08 | 1.22 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 109 | 82.82 | 1.79 | 35,055 | 56.33 | 0.82 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 169 | 127.17 | 2.86 | 65,976 | 104.48 | 1.41 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 114 | 83.92 | 1.78 | 68,821 | 108.65 | 1.42 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 102 | 75.03 | 2.01 | 55,337 | 86.22 | 1.21 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 135 | 99.65 | 2.84 | 49,364 | 76.37 | 1.19 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 19 | 14.05 | 2.07 | 15,072 | 23.30 | 1.22 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Hyde Park Compared to Other Westminster Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Paddington | 3,851 | 98.62 | 86% safer |
| Mayfair | 7,612 | 116.61 | 83% safer |
| Kensington Gardens | 136 | 189.91 | 73% safer |
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