SW5 5

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Kensington and Chelsea

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Kensington and Chelsea Council · Conservative-controlled 34/50 seats · 68% · OCD 2026

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How safe is it? This postcode sector

We don’t hold a separate crime rate for SW5 5, so this is the wider Kensington and Chelsea district: 13.8 per 1,000 residents a month — above the covered-area average of 9.7. The trend and category mix here are SW5 5’s own.

Crime rate

Monthly recorded crimes across the whole district

District crime rate13.8 / 1,000 / mo

Covered-area average9.7

Per-1,000 rate is the wider Kensington and Chelsea district — we don’t hold a separate population-based rate for SW5 5 · police.uk / ONS

By category, 12 months from Kensington and Chelsea

Violence and sexual offences

5,025

Anti-social behaviour

4,879

Shoplifting

3,235

Other theft

2,791

Vehicle crime

2,041

Theft from the person

1,778

Recorded crimes by category across the whole Kensington and Chelsea district, last 12 months · police.uk / Home Office

Where crime clusters

On or near	Crimes
Supermarket	814
Shopping Area	447
Parking Area	296
Theatre/Concert Hall	165
Nightclub	144

Busiest anonymised "on or near" markers over the last 6 months — click a row to centre the crime map there · retail-heavy spots naturally rank high (shoplifting concentrates where the shops are) · police.uk

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