Crime in W1R 8

The W1R 8 postcode sector, in the W (West London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 180 street-crime records for W1R 8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 10.0% 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

180

Share of W1R

12.6%

Year-on-year

-10.0%

W1R 8 holds 12.6% of the 1,433 records assigned to W1R in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	17
October 2025	14
November 2025	17
December 2025	25
January 2026	17
February 2026	17
March 2026	13
April 2026	10
May 2026	9
June 2026	10
July 2026	14
August 2026	17

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	W1R 8	W1R	Force
Shoplifting	45.6%	20.5%	8.4%
Theft from the person	24.4%	35.8%	6.4%
Other theft	10.0%	19.5%	8.8%
Violence and sexual offences	6.7%	7.0%	25.3%
Robbery	6.1%	3.4%	2.7%
Anti-social behaviour	2.2%	6.1%	20.9%
Bicycle theft	1.7%	0.7%	1.3%
Vehicle crime	1.1%	1.5%	7.4%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for W1R 8 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2020	548
2021	531
2022	492
2024	112
2025	185
2026 (part year)	107

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. W1R 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/w1r-8/

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