Crime in W1H 8

The W1H 8 postcode sector, in the W (West London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 440 street-crime records for W1H 8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.4% fewer than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

440

Share of W1H

12.9%

Year-on-year

-6.4%

W1H 8 holds 12.9% of the 3,405 records assigned to W1H in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	35
October 2025	45
November 2025	58
December 2025	47
January 2026	27
February 2026	35
March 2026	30
April 2026	28
May 2026	26
June 2026	37
July 2026	43
August 2026	29

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

No Census 2021 residents are recorded for these postcodes, so no rate is shown.

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	W1H 8	W1H	Force
Shoplifting	47.7%	13.5%	8.4%
Theft from the person	19.3%	18.4%	6.4%
Other theft	11.4%	13.7%	8.8%
Violence and sexual offences	9.3%	13.7%	25.3%
Public order	5.5%	6.0%	5.3%
Robbery	3.6%	5.0%	2.7%
Drugs	0.9%	4.5%	4.3%
Vehicle crime	0.7%	4.4%	7.4%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for W1H 8 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2020	28
2021	36
2022	18
2024	276
2025	482
2026 (part year)	255

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.
Full detail is on the methodology page and in what a postcode district crime page shows, which covers sectors too.

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CrimeMapsUK. W1H 8 postcode sector: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/sectors/w1h-8/

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