Total Crime Rate
4667.9 per 1,000
All offences · Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Violent Crime Rate
1928.3 per 1,000
Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Villiers Street area has the 5th highest crime rate of 64 local areas in Knightsbridge & Belgravia , and the 14th highest crime rate of 604 local areas in Westminster .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Villiers Street (WC2N 6ND) in the last 12 months was 4667.9 per 1,000 residents and was 1319.2% higher than the Knightsbridge & Belgravia average (328.9 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 378 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 3 cases , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 120.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Burglary ( -68.4% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 511 (≈ 1928.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -5.9% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 61.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Villiers Street (WC2N 6ND), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Theatre/Concert Hall, where police recorded 668 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Police Station (315 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Knightsbridge & Belgravia| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | B404 | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Embankment Place | — |
| Oct 2025 | Drugs | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Drugs | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Drugs | Police Station | Awaiting court outcome |
| Oct 2025 | Drugs | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Drugs | Police Station | Awaiting court outcome |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Chandos Place | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Chandos Place | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Chandos Place | — |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Embankment Place | — |
| Oct 2025 | Drugs | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Embankment Place | — |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Embankment Place | — |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Whitehall Court | — |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Horse Guards Avenue | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Horse Guards Avenue | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Horse Guards Avenue | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Horse Guards Avenue | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Horse Guards Avenue | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Vehicle crime | Horse Guards Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Theft from the person | Horse Guards Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Theft from the person | Horse Guards Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Theft from the person | Horse Guards Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Theft from the person | Horse Guards Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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