Crime and Safety in Regent's Park, Westminster
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in Regent's Park is other theft, with 76 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 98. This is 29% lower than 2025's figure of 107 offences and a difference of 40.01 from 2025's crime rate of 138. Regent's Park's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 1 offence recorded in 2026, the same as 2025's figure of 1 crime.
Regent's Park 2026 Crime Scorecard
183% higher, borough crime rate
London
391% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Westminster is 183% higher than London and 391% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Westminster Crime Rate Over Time
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Regent's Park Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Regent's 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 Regent's Park's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Regent's Park up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Regent's Park's 39 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
Regent's Park • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Regent's Park has a crime risk score of 632. This is based on analysis of 39 nearby areas within Regent's 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 Regent's Park's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Regent's Park, crime risk scores are typically around 632, while in Westminster they are average 690.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 706 (761 for Westminster), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 802 (Westminster 804).
Trends in Crime Risk
Regent's 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.
No trend could be found in Regent's Park'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 Regent's Park's crime risk score is up by 22%. 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, Regent's Park's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 7%, 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
Regent's 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
Regent's 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 68 reports per 1,000 people in Regent's Park, which is 44 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 53 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 1 report of Possession of Weapons in Regent's Park, resulting in a crime rate of 1.29 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 18.
The crime rate for Robbery is 17 times the national average at 10 reports per 1,000. This is from 8 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Regent's 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.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 4.75 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 1.86 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 155% over this timeframe.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 43 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 39 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 9% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Regent's Park
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 4.06 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 57 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Regent's 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 | 13 | 16.77 | 1.77 | 13,374 | 22.23 | 1.57 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 10 | 12.90 | 31 | 935 | 1.56 | 2.14 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 5 | 6.45 | 5.12 | 2,618 | 4.36 | 1.39 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 8 | 10.32 | 2.82 | 2,216 | 3.68 | 0.59 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 14 | 18.06 | 9.92 | 2,933 | 4.90 | 1.59 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 2 | 2.58 | 8.60 | 487 | 0.79 | 0.43 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 76 | 98.04 | 17 | 15,647 | 26.00 | 4.57 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 1 | 1.29 | 18 | 357 | 0.61 | 0.72 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 23 | 29.67 | 5.48 | 3,643 | 6.06 | 1.04 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 8 | 10.32 | 17 | 2,960 | 4.93 | 4.18 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 1 | 1.29 | 2.15 | 8,025 | 13.34 | 1.87 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 53 | 68.35 | 44 | 19,993 | 33.21 | 21 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 13 | 16.77 | 6.68 | 2,950 | 4.90 | 1.14 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 60 | 77.38 | 2.55 | 12,434 | 20.68 | 0.68 | 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 | 274 | 353.42 | 6.51 | 75,198 | 125.02 | 1.74 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 318 | 410.60 | 7.68 | 84,643 | 140.59 | 1.90 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 240 | 307.67 | 5.35 | 88,968 | 147.25 | 1.95 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 242 | 319.09 | 5.48 | 78,518 | 128.70 | 1.63 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 260 | 334.73 | 5.45 | 58,005 | 94.08 | 1.22 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 317 | 383.07 | 6.68 | 35,055 | 56.33 | 0.82 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 193 | 224.63 | 4.10 | 65,976 | 104.48 | 1.41 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 200 | 222.37 | 4.33 | 68,821 | 108.65 | 1.42 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 202 | 224.80 | 3.98 | 55,337 | 86.22 | 1.21 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 170 | 195.47 | 4.09 | 49,364 | 76.37 | 1.19 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 38 | 44.18 | 4.16 | 15,072 | 23.30 | 1.22 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Regent's Park 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 | 80% safer |
| Lisson Grove | 2,655 | 109.74 | 69% safer |
| Marylebone | 10,531 | 145.13 | 59% safer |
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