Crime in W1Y 5

The W1Y 5 postcode sector, in the W (West London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 58 street-crime records for W1Y 5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 18.3% 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

Share of W1Y

6.1%

Year-on-year

-18.3%

W1Y 5 holds 6.1% of the 956 records assigned to W1Y in the same window.

Month-by-month totals

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	4
October 2025	5
November 2025	4
December 2025	5
January 2026	4
February 2026	10
March 2026	4
April 2026	6
May 2026	0
June 2026	5
July 2026	7
August 2026	4

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	W1Y 5	W1Y	Force
Violence and sexual offences	20.7%	20.1%	25.3%
Anti-social behaviour	19.0%	10.8%	20.9%
Other theft	12.1%	11.7%	8.8%
Vehicle crime	10.3%	2.8%	7.4%
Public order	8.6%	5.4%	5.3%
Drugs	6.9%	13.5%	4.3%
Theft from the person	6.9%	22.7%	6.4%
Shoplifting	5.2%	2.3%	8.4%

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for W1Y 5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	13
2022	40
2023	68
2024	73
2025	65
2026 (part year)	40

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. W1Y 5 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/w1y-5/

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