Photo: P.g.champion · CC BY 2.0 ukEaling stands out for theft from the person: 5.2 times the rate of a typical town its size
It has more violent crime than 75% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 94%. Ealing’s overall Safety Grade is C− (#13 of 33 in London): more crime per resident than 84% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Violent crime was up 7% in a year. Annual rates stand at 33.6 violent and sexual offences and 22.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Ealing
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% more violent crime per resident in Ealing than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 5% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 34 UK towns and cities of 257,000 to 496,000 people, Ealing has the 8th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Brent, Hounslow and Croydon, higher than Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C− for Ealing
A firm grade. Built on 61,178 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Ealing against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Ealing runs highest on theft from the person (3.4 per 1,000 against 0.7), vehicle crime (11.6 per 1,000 against 4.9) and robbery (2.6 per 1,000 against 1.4). Other crime and criminal damage & arson sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 11,611 | 31.6 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 11,396 | 31 | 17.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 4,257 | 11.6 | 4.9 |
| Other theft | not graded | 2,893 | 7.9 | 6.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2,715 | 7.4 | 10.3 |
| Public order | not graded | 2,384 | 6.5 | 7.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1,871 | 5.1 | 3.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 1,723 | 4.7 | 3.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 1,486 | 4 | 7.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1,258 | 3.4 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 949 | 2.6 | 1.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 426 | 1.2 | 2.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 353 | 1 | 0.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 278 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Police in Ealing identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 86% of Ealing’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 45% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (39% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 2% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 20,663 crimes.
Lowest recorded crime in Southall West, Northfield and North Greenford; highest in Southall Broadway
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southall West | 6,580 | 17.7 | 11.6 | |
| Northfield | 13,736 | 14.4 | 16 | |
| North Greenford | 15,554 | 21.3 | 13.2 | |
| North Hanwell | 15,032 | 25.1 | 14.9 | |
| Pitshanger | 15,165 | 22.6 | 17.8 | |
| Southfield | 16,475 | 19.6 | 22.5 | |
| Lady Margaret | 15,782 | 29.6 | 14.8 | |
| Dormers Wells | 15,611 | 30.9 | 16 | |
| Northolt Mandeville | 17,529 | 30.5 | 18 | |
| East Acton | 15,211 | 30.7 | 20 | |
| Northolt West End | 16,542 | 35.6 | 17.1 | |
| Central Greenford | 14,356 | 33.5 | 19.6 | |
| Ealing Common | 15,947 | 24.3 | 28.9 | |
| Hanger Hill | 17,049 | 23.2 | 31.2 | |
| Greenford Broadway | 17,375 | 36.2 | 19.3 | |
| Perivale | 16,185 | 31.7 | 27.9 | |
| Walpole | 14,753 | 30.8 | 29.3 | |
| Norwood Green | 16,096 | 43.4 | 17.4 | |
| South Acton | 16,827 | 40.3 | 23.1 | |
| Hanwell Broadway | 15,290 | 39.2 | 25.2 | |
| Ealing Broadway | 13,921 | 43.4 | 23.6 | |
| North Acton | 19,035 | 41.7 | 32.5 | |
| Southall Green | 15,692 | 53 | 26.2 | |
| Southall Broadway | 10,824 | 83.5 | 38.6 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 4,768 | 31% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 4,226 | 40% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 4,186 | 38% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 3,631 | 52% shoplifting & theft |
| Hospitals | 1,965 | 48% violent |
| Nightclubs | 1,545 | 38% anti-social behaviour |
| College and university buildings | 957 | 33% violent |
| Police stations | 508 | 39% anti-social behaviour |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 486 | 33% violent |
| Bus and coach stations | 389 | 33% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Southall Broadway records 2.6× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Ealing. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Ealing. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Ealing’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Towns its size: Ealing comes 8th of 34
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harrow London | 260,534 | 23.3 | 15.4 | 16 | C+ |
| 2 | Barnet London | 388,572 | 25.3 | 21 | 18.8 | C |
| 3 | Bromley London | 325,469 | 25.7 | 20.8 | 17.4 | C |
| 4 | Wandsworth London | 326,725 | 27.7 | 18.9 | 23 | C |
| 5 | Havering London | 259,401 | 29 | 18.1 | 17.7 | C |
| 6 | Redbridge London | 309,509 | 31.1 | 17.7 | 18.7 | C− |
| 7 | Waltham Forest London | 278,129 | 28.5 | 21 | 23.4 | C− |
| 8 | Ealing London | 367,271 | 33.6 | 22.2 | 20.8 | C− |
| 9 | Brighton and Hove East Sussex | 277,096 | 40.8 | 15.4 | 29.7 | C− |
| 10 | Hillingdon London | 307,089 | 33.4 | 23 | 23.6 | C− |
| 11 | Enfield London | 329,822 | 32.6 | 24 | 20.6 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 34 | Bradford West Yorkshire | 333,968 | 72.2 | 28.3 | 19.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Ealing, and others in London.
Crime in Ealing per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 21 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 20 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How Ealing’s neighbourhoods rank in England
14% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 13% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Ealing’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
How crime in Ealing has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +7% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -5% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft -9% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour +4% (towns its size -2%).
20 people died in collisions on Ealing’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 4,142 collisions with injuries inside Ealing in five years, in which 20 people died (14 were pedestrians). 608 people were killed or seriously injured: 218 on foot and 126 on a bicycle.
That is 1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (1.1, 210 towns).
Counting serious injuries too, Ealing had 33.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 36% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Ealing’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Ealing
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ealing | 367,271 | 33.6 | 22.2 | C− |
| Brent | 340,611 | 35.9 | 20.8 | C− |
| Hounslow | 286,591 | 35.2 | 21.5 | C− |
| Hillingdon | 307,089 | 33.4 | 23 | C− |
| Harrow | 260,534 | 23.3 | 15.4 | C+ |
| Richmond upon Thames | 192,888 | 18.8 | 17.9 | C+ |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 182,187 | 39.2 | 23.5 | D |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 143,348 | 39.4 | 32 | D |
Ealing records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Harrow, 4.9 miles away, records 23.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Ealing’s 33.6.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 1,965 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Ealing’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Ealing sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Ealing
Is Ealing safe?
Police recorded 33.6 violent and sexual offences and 22.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Ealing’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 16% of UK towns. Among 34 UK towns of 257,000 to 496,000 people, Ealing is 8th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Ealing?
By council ward, Southall West, Northfield and North Greenford record the least violent and household crime per resident: 17.7, 14.4 and 21.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 83.5 in Southall Broadway.
Is crime going up in Ealing?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 5%, shoplifting and theft fell 9% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Ealing town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 1,545 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 17% of them violent, and Southall Broadway ward records 83.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in July and was lowest in January.
What is the most common crime in Ealing?
Violence & sexual offences: 11,611 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (4,257) and other theft (2,893), with 11,396 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Ealing compare with Barnet?
Barnet records 25.3 violent and sexual offences and 21 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Ealing’s 33.6 and 22.2, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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