Total Crime Rate
137.0 per 1,000
All offences Β· May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
54.8 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Seward Road area has the 22nd highest crime rate of 74 local areas in Hanwell Broadway , and the 260th highest crime rate of 951 local areas in Ealing .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Seward Road (W7 2JS) in the last 12 months was 137.0 per 1,000 residents and was 10.3% lower than the Hanwell Broadway average (152.8 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this areaβs most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 16 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Violence and sexual offences ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other theft ( -33.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 16 (β 54.8 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 77.8% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 264.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Seward Road (W7 2JS), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Regina Road, where police recorded 86 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Walsingham Road (28 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Hanwell Broadway| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Grosvenor Road | β |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Croft Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Seward Road | β |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Seward Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | St Kilda Road | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | St Kilda Road | β |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Grosvenor Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Grosvenor Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Eccleston Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Grosvenor Road | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Melbourne Avenue | β |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oaklands Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Melbourne Avenue | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Melbourne Avenue | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Melbourne Avenue | β |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Walsingham Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Melbourne Avenue | β |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Walsingham Road | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Walsingham Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Walsingham Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Coldershaw Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Croft Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | St Kilda Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Regina Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Oaklands Road | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Regina Road | β |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Elthorne Park Road | β |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Whitehall Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oaklands Road | Under investigation |
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