Borough safety · Inner London · data through August 2026

How safe is Westminster, London?

Westminster, London covers 18 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Inner London index. Its median safety index is 48/100 — below the Inner London median of 60, so more is reported around a typical neighbourhood here than across Inner London. Abbey Road scores highest at 68/100; West End lowest at 27/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 0 of 18 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 7 moderate, 11 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Westminster, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Abbey Road	68/100	Moderate	346
2 Regent's Park	68/100	Moderate	381
3 Maida Vale	59/100	Moderate	508
4 Lancaster Gate	58/100	Moderate	544
5 Little Venice	58/100	Moderate	550
6 Pimlico South	57/100	Moderate	562
7 Knightsbridge & Belgravia	52/100	Moderate	768
8 Pimlico North	49/100	Elevated	792
9 Vincent Square	48/100	Elevated	801
10 Church Street	47/100	Elevated	899
11 Queen's Park	47/100	Elevated	793
12 Harrow Road	46/100	Elevated	830
13 Hyde Park	45/100	Elevated	964
14 Westbourne	44/100	Elevated	961
15 Bayswater	41/100	Elevated	1,110
16 Marylebone	36/100	Elevated	1,507
17 St James's	33/100	Elevated	1,535
18 West End	27/100	Elevated	2,296

How Westminster compares across Inner London

Boroughs (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Greenwich	80/100	23
Wandsworth	75/100	22
Lewisham	74/100	19
Hammersmith and Fulham	62/100	21
Kensington and Chelsea	60/100	18
Hackney	59/100	21
Lambeth	58/100	25
Southwark	57/100	23
Camden	57/100	20
Tower Hamlets	54/100	20
Islington	50/100	17
Westminster (this page)	48/100	18

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Westminster, London?

Abbey Road has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Westminster, London, at 68/100 (moderate), from 346 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Regent's Park (68/100) and Maida Vale (59/100) follow.

Which neighbourhood in Westminster, London has the most reported crime?

West End has the lowest index in Westminster, London, at 27/100, with 2,296 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. A low score means more is reported around that centre, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Westminster, London safe?

Across its 18 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 48/100, against 60 across Inner London. 0 rate low risk, 7 moderate, 11 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the borough — check the individual neighbourhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each police-recorded incident by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighbourhood centre, and normalises against national crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for Westminster, London is the median of its 18 neighbourhoods — the borough is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident published by the police (via data.police.uk, Open Government Licence) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre (ONS December 2025 ward centroids), and normalise onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Incident locations are anonymised by the police to nearby snap points, so the maps show streets rather than exact addresses. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighbourhoods within Inner London. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — London's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.