Crime and Safety in West Kilburn, Westminster
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in West Kilburn are violence and sexual offences, with 565 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 29. This is the same as 2025's figure of 565 offences and a difference of 0.02 from 2025's crime rate of 29. West Kilburn's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 16 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 23% from 2025's figure of 13 crimes.
West Kilburn 2026 Crime Scorecard
32% lower, borough crime rate
London
19% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Westminster is 32% lower than London and 19% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Westminster Crime Rate Over Time
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West Kilburn Crime Map
Incidents mapped in West Kilburn 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 West Kilburn's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around West Kilburn up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of West Kilburn's 16 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
West Kilburn • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within West Kilburn has a crime risk score of 698. This is based on analysis of 16 nearby areas within West Kilburn, 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 West Kilburn's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in West Kilburn, crime risk scores are typically around 698, while in Westminster they are average 690.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 771 (761 for Westminster), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 802 (Westminster 804).
Trends in Crime Risk
West Kilburn
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 7% in West Kilburn'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 West Kilburn's crime risk score is up by 13%. 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, West Kilburn's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 3.4%, 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
West Kilburn
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
West Kilburn • 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.
Drugs offences have a crime rate of 12 reports per 1,000 people in West Kilburn, which is 3.83 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 229 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 57 reports of Robbery in West Kilburn, resulting in a crime rate of 2.95 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.50.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 1.92 times the national average at 0.98 reports per 1,000. This is from 19 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
West Kilburn
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.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.23 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 1.18 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 89% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.48 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.00 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 148% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.27 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.10 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 2170% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
West Kilburn
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.00 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 1.78 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 44% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.85 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.97 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 12% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
West Kilburn • 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 | 622 | 32.19 | 2.28 | 13,374 | 22.23 | 1.57 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 16 | 0.83 | 1.80 | 935 | 1.56 | 2.14 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 93 | 4.84 | 1.55 | 2,618 | 4.36 | 1.39 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 108 | 5.58 | 0.89 | 2,216 | 3.68 | 0.59 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 229 | 11.85 | 3.83 | 2,933 | 4.90 | 1.59 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 22 | 1.13 | 0.66 | 487 | 0.79 | 0.43 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 156 | 8.08 | 1.42 | 15,647 | 26.00 | 4.57 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 19 | 0.98 | 1.92 | 357 | 0.61 | 0.72 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 112 | 5.79 | 1.00 | 3,643 | 6.06 | 1.04 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 57 | 2.95 | 2.50 | 2,960 | 4.93 | 4.18 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 95 | 4.92 | 0.69 | 8,025 | 13.34 | 1.87 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 45 | 2.33 | 1.50 | 19,993 | 33.21 | 21 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 134 | 6.94 | 1.61 | 2,950 | 4.90 | 1.14 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 565 | 29.24 | 0.96 | 12,434 | 20.68 | 0.68 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
West Kilburn | Westminster | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 1,651 | 85.46 | 1.20 | 75,198 | 125.02 | 1.74 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 1,500 | 77.79 | 1.06 | 84,643 | 140.59 | 1.90 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,524 | 79.15 | 1.06 | 88,968 | 147.25 | 1.95 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 1,568 | 81.27 | 1.04 | 78,518 | 128.70 | 1.63 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 1,424 | 73.15 | 0.96 | 58,005 | 94.08 | 1.22 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 1,727 | 87.13 | 1.28 | 35,055 | 56.33 | 0.82 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 1,601 | 79.47 | 1.08 | 65,976 | 104.48 | 1.41 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 1,577 | 77.63 | 1.03 | 68,821 | 108.65 | 1.42 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 1,485 | 71.98 | 1.02 | 55,337 | 86.22 | 1.21 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 1,304 | 61.74 | 0.99 | 49,364 | 76.37 | 1.19 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 364 | 17.14 | 0.92 | 15,072 | 23.30 | 1.22 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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West Kilburn Compared to Other Westminster Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Maida Vale | 2,453 | 89.59 | 4.8% more dangerous |
| Westbourne | 1,811 | 101.60 | 19% more dangerous |
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