Cities of London and Westminster

England · E14001172

86,436 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – theft from the person is the most common, falling versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
86,436
Most common
Theft from the person falling
20,941 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

10,441/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Theft from the personfalling20,94124.2%
Other theftfalling16,99419.7%
Violence & sexual offencesfalling11,45613.3%
Anti-social behaviourfalling9,98111.5%
Shopliftingrising9,08410.5%
Public orderfalling3,6954.3%
Robberyfalling2,9573.4%
Drugsrising2,7003.1%
Burglaryrising2,4512.8%
Vehicle crimefalling2,3112.7%
Criminal damage & arsonfalling2,0252.3%
Bicycle theftrising1,0771.2%
Other crimerising4360.5%
Possession of weaponsrising3280.4%

The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.

Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this
Source
Street-level crime
Publisher
data.police.uk (Home Office)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Retrieved
2026-09-18
How it's mapped
Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.

Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.

Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.