Crime and Safety in Lisson Grove, Westminster
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Lisson Grove are violence and sexual offences, with 660 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 27. This is 3.2% lower than 2025's figure of 682 offences and a difference of 0.92 from 2025's crime rate of 28. Lisson Grove's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 21 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 4.5% from 2025's figure of 22 crimes.
Lisson Grove 2026 Crime Scorecard
12% lower, borough crime rate
London
52% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Westminster is 12% lower than London and 52% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Westminster Crime Rate Over Time
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Lisson Grove Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Lisson Grove 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 Lisson Grove's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Lisson Grove up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Lisson Grove's 35 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
Lisson Grove • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Lisson Grove has a crime risk score of 648. This is based on analysis of 35 nearby areas within Lisson Grove, 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 Lisson Grove's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Lisson Grove, crime risk scores are typically around 648, while in Westminster they are average 690.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 702 (761 for Westminster), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 755 (Westminster 804).
Trends in Crime Risk
Lisson Grove
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 Lisson Grove'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 Lisson Grove's crime risk score is up by 23%. 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, Lisson Grove's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 4.5%, 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
Lisson Grove
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
Lisson Grove • 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 12 reports per 1,000 people in Lisson Grove, which is 7.94 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 298 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 93 reports of Robbery in Lisson Grove, resulting in a crime rate of 3.84 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 3.25.
The crime rate for Shoplifting is 2.17 times the national average at 15 reports per 1,000. This is from 374 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Lisson Grove
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.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.38 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.80 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 72% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.86 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.91 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 5% over this timeframe.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 8.58 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 5.23 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 64% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Lisson Grove
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.21 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 3.40 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 64% over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.31 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.95 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 67% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.10 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 3.78 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 44% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Lisson Grove • 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 | 789 | 32.61 | 2.31 | 13,374 | 22.23 | 1.57 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 21 | 0.86 | 1.59 | 935 | 1.56 | 2.14 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 121 | 5.01 | 1.60 | 2,618 | 4.36 | 1.39 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 117 | 4.84 | 0.77 | 2,216 | 3.68 | 0.59 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 141 | 5.82 | 1.88 | 2,933 | 4.90 | 1.59 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 25 | 1.03 | 0.74 | 487 | 0.79 | 0.43 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 434 | 17.94 | 3.15 | 15,647 | 26.00 | 4.57 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 21 | 0.87 | 1.24 | 357 | 0.61 | 0.72 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 166 | 6.86 | 1.18 | 3,643 | 6.06 | 1.04 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 93 | 3.84 | 3.25 | 2,960 | 4.93 | 4.18 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 374 | 15.46 | 2.17 | 8,025 | 13.34 | 1.87 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 298 | 12.31 | 7.94 | 19,993 | 33.21 | 21 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 184 | 7.62 | 1.77 | 2,950 | 4.90 | 1.14 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 660 | 27.28 | 0.90 | 12,434 | 20.68 | 0.68 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Lisson Grove | Westminster | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 2,655 | 109.74 | 1.54 | 75,198 | 125.02 | 1.74 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 2,370 | 98.16 | 1.33 | 84,643 | 140.59 | 1.90 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 2,539 | 107.21 | 1.43 | 88,968 | 147.25 | 1.95 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 2,244 | 96.52 | 1.23 | 78,518 | 128.70 | 1.63 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 2,206 | 93.49 | 1.22 | 58,005 | 94.08 | 1.22 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 1,925 | 79.20 | 1.16 | 35,055 | 56.33 | 0.82 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 2,253 | 91.05 | 1.24 | 65,976 | 104.48 | 1.41 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 2,477 | 96.67 | 1.28 | 68,821 | 108.65 | 1.42 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 2,190 | 83.45 | 1.18 | 55,337 | 86.22 | 1.21 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 2,092 | 80.10 | 1.27 | 49,364 | 76.37 | 1.19 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 605 | 23.23 | 1.23 | 15,072 | 23.30 | 1.22 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Lisson Grove Compared to Other Westminster Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| St. John's Wood | 1,484 | 69.21 | 37% safer |
| Maida Vale | 2,453 | 89.59 | 18% safer |
| Paddington | 3,851 | 98.62 | 10% safer |
| Marylebone | 10,531 | 145.13 | 32% more dangerous |
| Regent's Park | 274 | 353.42 | 222% more dangerous |
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