Photo: Peter McDermott · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Hammersmith and Fulham records more crime than 90% of UK towns
Violence recorded locally held about level in a year. Per 1,000 residents a year, 39.2 violent and sexual offences and 23.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were recorded. The grade is D, built on crimes police recorded inside Hammersmith and Fulham’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #26 of 33 in London. Of all the kinds of crime, theft from the person is where Hammersmith and Fulham departs most from towns its size: 4.6 per 1,000 against 0.7.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hammersmith and Fulham
About the middle for a borough its size
Of 38 UK towns and cities of 128,000 to 246,000 people, Hammersmith and Fulham has the 21st lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Northampton, Colchester and Islington, higher than Telford, Swansea and Barking and Dagenham. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Hammersmith and Fulham’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 33,999 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hammersmith and Fulham 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, Hammersmith and Fulham runs highest on theft from the person (4.6 per 1,000 against 0.7), bicycle theft (2.9 per 1,000 against 0.9) and robbery (2.8 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 | 6,433 | 35.3 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 5,891 | 32.3 | 17.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2,862 | 15.7 | 10.3 |
| Other theft | not graded | 2,240 | 12.3 | 6.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 1,649 | 9.1 | 7.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 1,639 | 9 | 4.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 1,139 | 6.3 | 3.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1,104 | 6.1 | 3.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 840 | 4.6 | 0.7 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 742 | 4.1 | 7.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 530 | 2.9 | 0.9 |
| Robbery | Violent | 517 | 2.8 | 1.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 256 | 1.4 | 2.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 152 | 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.
Lowest recorded crime in Wendell Park, Palace & Hurlingham and Brook Green; highest in Shepherd's Bush Green
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wendell Park | 7,102 | 12.5 | 12.2 | |
| Palace & Hurlingham | 11,174 | 17.4 | 17.4 | |
| Brook Green | 8,248 | 19.7 | 15.8 | |
| Munster | 12,137 | 18.2 | 17.6 | |
| Lillie | 6,712 | 25.7 | 10.3 | |
| Avonmore | 7,534 | 26 | 17.5 | |
| Sands End | 11,130 | 26.3 | 17.5 | |
| White City | 10,385 | 30.9 | 13.1 | |
| Wormholt | 7,598 | 29.2 | 18.1 | |
| Parsons Green & Sandford | 7,727 | 23.3 | 26.6 | |
| West Kensington | 9,307 | 32.2 | 17.9 | |
| Fulham Town | 7,393 | 23 | 27.9 | |
| Coningham | 10,588 | 39.8 | 25.8 | |
| Fulham Reach | 12,163 | 46.9 | 22.8 | |
| Addison | 7,721 | 48.2 | 28.2 | |
| Walham Green | 7,951 | 51.8 | 25.9 | |
| Ravenscourt | 6,934 | 33.7 | 44.4 | |
| College Park & Old Oak | 9,711 | 55.6 | 26.1 | |
| Hammersmith Broadway | 7,854 | 64.3 | 34.2 | |
| Grove | 7,248 | 80.3 | 37.7 | |
| Shepherd's Bush Green | 5,570 | 155.8 | 49.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping areas | 4,282 | 39% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 3,557 | 67% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 2,480 | 43% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 1,075 | 60% shoplifting & theft |
| Police stations | 999 | 40% violent |
| College and university buildings | 656 | 37% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 604 | 27% violent |
| Parks and open spaces | 500 | 53% anti-social behaviour |
| Hospitals | 346 | 32% shoplifting & theft |
| Prisons | 295 | 66% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Shepherd's Bush Green records 4.5× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Hammersmith and Fulham. 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 Hammersmith and Fulham. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Hammersmith and Fulham’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Police in Hammersmith and Fulham identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 86% of Hammersmith and Fulham’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 44% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (37% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 3% 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. 11,758 crimes.
Crime in Hammersmith and Fulham 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 19 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 36 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How Hammersmith and Fulham’s neighbourhoods rank in England
13% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 18% 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.
Hammersmith and Fulham’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.
Violent crime held steady over the year
“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 -3% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -20% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +2% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour +1% (towns its size -2%).
21st of 38: Hammersmith and Fulham among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richmond upon Thames London | 192,888 | 18.8 | 17.9 | 15.9 | C+ |
| 2 | Kingston upon Thames London | 166,333 | 24.7 | 14 | 20.6 | C+ |
| 3 | Merton London | 214,931 | 24.2 | 14.8 | 16.1 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | Sutton London | 208,858 | 27.1 | 14.6 | 13.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 18 | Telford Shropshire | 156,890 | 44.8 | 13 | 17.6 | D |
| 19 | Swansea West Glamorgan | 170,090 | 42.6 | 15.6 | 21.1 | D |
| 20 | Barking and Dagenham London | 218,236 | 40.5 | 20 | 17.5 | D |
| 21 | Hammersmith and Fulham London | 182,187 | 39.2 | 23.5 | 36.9 | D |
| 22 | Slough Berkshire | 166,868 | 43.4 | 20.7 | 18.3 | D |
| 23 | Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire | 197,328 | 46.3 | 19.3 | 23.3 | D |
| 24 | Southend-on-Sea Essex | 182,295 | 48.3 | 17.4 | 18.6 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 38 | Westminster London | 203,571 | 81.4 | 42.3 | 254.6 | 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 Hammersmith and Fulham, and others in London.
Five people died in collisions on Hammersmith and Fulham’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 2,764 collisions with injuries inside Hammersmith and Fulham in five years, in which five people died (2 were pedestrians and 3 were cyclists). 519 people were killed or seriously injured: 163 on foot and 187 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more: at their median rate (1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Hammersmith and Fulham’s size would see about 10 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hammersmith and Fulham’s own rate (0.6) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Hammersmith and Fulham had 57.0 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 31% 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 Hammersmith and Fulham’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Hammersmith and Fulham
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 182,187 | 39.2 | 23.5 | D |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 143,348 | 39.4 | 32 | D |
| Westminster | 203,571 | 81.4 | 42.3 | D− |
| Wandsworth | 326,725 | 27.7 | 18.9 | C |
| Camden | 209,342 | 48.8 | 30.5 | D− |
| Brent | 340,611 | 35.9 | 20.8 | C− |
| Lambeth | 317,108 | 40.1 | 21.2 | D |
| Ealing | 367,271 | 33.6 | 22.2 | C− |
Hammersmith and Fulham records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Wandsworth, 3.1 miles away, records 27.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hammersmith and Fulham’s 39.2.
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
- A prison inside the boundary. police.uk counted 295 at or near a prison (66% violent) and 346 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Hammersmith and Fulham’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 Hammersmith and Fulham 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 Hammersmith and Fulham
Is Hammersmith and Fulham safe?
Police recorded 39.2 violent and sexual offences and 23.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hammersmith and Fulham’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 10% of UK towns. Among 38 UK towns of 128,000 to 246,000 people, Hammersmith and Fulham is 21st from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Hammersmith and Fulham?
By council ward, Wendell Park, Palace & Hurlingham and Brook Green record the least violent and household crime per resident: 12.5, 17.4 and 19.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 155.8 in Shepherd's Bush Green.
Is crime going up in Hammersmith and Fulham?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 20%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Hammersmith and Fulham town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 286 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 40% of them violent, and Shepherd's Bush Green ward records 155.8 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 February.
What is the most common crime in Hammersmith and Fulham?
Violence & sexual offences: 6,433 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (2,862) and other theft (2,240), with 5,891 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hammersmith and Fulham 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 Hammersmith and Fulham’s 39.2 and 23.5, 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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