Crime in W1V 8

The W1V 8 postcode sector, in the W (West London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 203 street-crime records for W1V 8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 12.1% 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

203

Share of W1V

19.5%

Year-on-year

-12.1%

W1V 8 holds 19.5% of the 1,043 records assigned to W1V in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	14
October 2025	24
November 2025	23
December 2025	22
January 2026	14
February 2026	15
March 2026	14
April 2026	15
May 2026	16
June 2026	15
July 2026	18
August 2026	13

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	W1V 8	W1V	Force
Theft from the person	30.5%	28.6%	6.4%
Violence and sexual offences	15.3%	12.4%	25.3%
Other theft	12.3%	17.4%	8.8%
Anti-social behaviour	12.3%	11.6%	20.9%
Public order	8.4%	3.7%	5.3%
Drugs	7.9%	4.7%	4.3%
Robbery	6.4%	5.2%	2.7%
Criminal damage and arson	3.0%	1.2%	3.2%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for W1V 8 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	166
2022	255
2023	284
2024	217
2025	230
2026 (part year)	120

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. W1V 8 postcode sector: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 31 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/w1v-8/

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