Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
Crime in W12 8
The W12 8 postcode sector, in the W (West London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,730 street-crime records for W12 8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 12.3% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 294.6 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 127.5 for Metropolitan Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
2,730
Share of W12
30.1%
Year-on-year
-12.3%
W12 8 holds 30.1% of the 9,074 records assigned to W12 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
250
October 2025
231
November 2025
197
December 2025
200
January 2026
200
February 2026
155
March 2026
185
April 2026
208
May 2026
232
June 2026
268
July 2026
291
August 2026
313
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
W12 8
294.6
Metropolitan Police
127.5
2,730 records and 9,268 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Category mix compared
Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Metropolitan Police.
Category
W12 8
W12
Force
Anti-social behaviour
25.1%
22.2%
20.9%
Violence and sexual offences
23.0%
24.6%
25.3%
Shoplifting
12.4%
15.6%
8.4%
Other theft
7.0%
7.4%
8.8%
Public order
6.4%
5.9%
5.3%
Drugs
6.3%
4.9%
4.3%
Vehicle crime
4.5%
5.1%
7.4%
Theft from the person
3.7%
3.9%
6.4%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for W12 8 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
2,166
2022
2,686
2023
2,873
2024
3,127
2025
2,957
2026 (part year)
1,852
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Covers 100.0% of the 9,268 Census 2021 residents of W12 8.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 12.7% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
13%2
58%3
20%4
4%5
6%6
0%7
0%8
0%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
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