Swakeleys · Photo: Harrison49 · CC BY-SA 3.0Hillingdon stands out for theft from the person: 4.6 times the rate of a typical town its size
Hillingdon’s overall Safety Grade is C− (#14 of 33 in London): more crime per resident than 85% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Violence recorded locally held about level in a year. For its size, it sits below 62% of the 207 UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more on crime per resident.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hillingdon
Less crime than many places its size
Of 41 UK towns and cities of 215,000 to 415,000 people, Hillingdon has the 12th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Croydon, Greenwich and Lewisham, higher than Luton, Ealing and Brighton and Hove. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Hillingdon’s C−
A firm grade. Built on 51,716 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hillingdon 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, Hillingdon runs highest on theft from the person (3 per 1,000 against 0.7), other crime (4.9 per 1,000 against 2.1) and vehicle crime (11 per 1,000 against 4.9). Violence & sexual offences and criminal damage & arson sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 9,826 | 32 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 8,294 | 27 | 17.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 3,368 | 11 | 4.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 3,215 | 10.5 | 10.3 |
| Other theft | not graded | 2,908 | 9.5 | 6.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 2,067 | 6.7 | 7.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 1,509 | 4.9 | 2.1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1,458 | 4.7 | 3.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 1,456 | 4.7 | 3.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 1,321 | 4.3 | 7.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 934 | 3 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 692 | 2.3 | 1.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 239 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 186 | 0.6 | 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 Hillingdon identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 85% of Hillingdon’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 42% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (42% 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. 17,667 crimes.
Lowest recorded crime in Hillingdon West, Ickenham & South Harefield and Ruislip Manor; highest in Heathrow Villages
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillingdon West | 9,692 | 13.4 | 9.8 | |
| Ickenham & South Harefield | 14,911 | 12.9 | 10.8 | |
| Ruislip Manor | 10,983 | 15.7 | 12.4 | |
| Ruislip | 15,440 | 15.7 | 13.8 | |
| Eastcote | 16,919 | 17.7 | 14.7 | |
| Northwood | 11,308 | 16.8 | 17.5 | |
| Northwood Hills | 11,439 | 23.6 | 16.4 | |
| Charville | 11,512 | 25.1 | 15.5 | |
| Hillingdon East | 15,440 | 24.8 | 16.2 | |
| Belmore | 17,493 | 23.2 | 18.3 | |
| South Ruislip | 16,842 | 20.8 | 21.7 | |
| Harefield Village | 4,961 | 25.9 | 20.5 | |
| Denham | 3,227 | 28.3 | 19.7 | |
| West Drayton | 18,436 | 30.5 | 22.3 | |
| Yeading | 13,424 | 38.6 | 25.3 | |
| Pinkwell | 16,707 | 37.8 | 28.7 | |
| Wood End | 19,805 | 40.3 | 26.6 | |
| Colham & Cowley | 19,139 | 48.2 | 20 | |
| Yiewsley | 12,408 | 43.8 | 26.4 | |
| Hayes Town | 14,995 | 46.8 | 26.1 | |
| Uxbridge | 17,964 | 59.4 | 39.4 | |
| Heathrow Villages | 14,044 | 93.1 | 66 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping areas | 10,475 | 36% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 6,484 | 30% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 5,707 | 55% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 2,741 | 52% shoplifting & theft |
| Prisons | 1,126 | 74% violent |
| Bus and coach stations | 765 | 75% anti-social behaviour |
| Hospitals | 752 | 54% violent |
| College and university buildings | 596 | 44% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 591 | 30% anti-social behaviour |
| Parks and open spaces | 419 | 33% shoplifting & theft |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Heathrow Villages records 3.1× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Hillingdon. 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 Hillingdon. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Hillingdon’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
For every 1,000 residents, about 35 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
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 20 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 24 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Among 41 towns its size, Hillingdon ranks 12th for the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harrow London | 260,534 | 23.3 | 15.4 | 16 | C+ |
| 2 | Bexley London | 246,074 | 26.1 | 17.5 | 14.3 | C |
| 3 | Barnet London | 388,572 | 25.3 | 21 | 18.8 | C |
| 4 | Bromley London | 325,469 | 25.7 | 20.8 | 17.4 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 9 | Luton Bedfordshire | 233,524 | 36.7 | 17.7 | 17.5 | C− |
| 10 | Ealing London | 367,271 | 33.6 | 22.2 | 20.8 | C− |
| 11 | Brighton and Hove East Sussex | 277,096 | 40.8 | 15.4 | 29.7 | C− |
| 12 | Hillingdon London | 307,089 | 33.4 | 23 | 23.6 | C− |
| 13 | Enfield London | 329,822 | 32.6 | 24 | 20.6 | C− |
| 14 | Brent London | 340,611 | 35.9 | 20.8 | 26.2 | C− |
| 15 | Hounslow London | 286,591 | 35.2 | 21.5 | 21.8 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 41 | 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 Hillingdon, and others in London.
How Hillingdon’s neighbourhoods rank in England
21% 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.
Hillingdon’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 +5% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -12% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +1% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -4% (towns its size -2%).
10 people died in collisions on Hillingdon’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 2,854 collisions with injuries inside Hillingdon in five years, in which 10 people died (6 were pedestrians). 452 people were killed or seriously injured: 173 on foot and 55 on a bicycle. One person was killed on a motorway.
That is 0.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (1.1, 210 towns).
Counting serious injuries too, Hillingdon had 29.5 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). 38% 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 Hillingdon’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Hillingdon
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillingdon | 307,089 | 33.4 | 23 | C− |
| New Denham | 1,790 | 30.2 | 17.5 | C− |
| Denham | 1,482 | 23.4 | 19.6 | C |
| Iver | 3,267 | 41.2 | 20.1 | D |
| Iver Heath | 5,150 | 16.5 | 15.9 | B− |
| Richings Park | 1,787 | 24.7 | 23.7 | C− |
| Ealing | 367,271 | 33.6 | 22.2 | C− |
| Poyle | 1,736 | 44.6 | 34.8 | D− |
Hillingdon records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Iver and Poyle record more. New Denham, 2.7 miles away, records 30.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hillingdon’s 33.4.
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 1,126 at or near a prison (74% violent), 752 at or near a hospital and 196 at an airport or airfield over three years. They count in Hillingdon’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 Hillingdon 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 Hillingdon
Is Hillingdon safe?
Police recorded 33.4 violent and sexual offences and 23 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hillingdon’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 15% of UK towns. Among 41 UK towns of 215,000 to 415,000 people, Hillingdon is 12th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Hillingdon?
By council ward, Hillingdon West, Ickenham & South Harefield and Ruislip Manor record the least violent and household crime per resident: 13.4, 12.9 and 15.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 93.1 in Heathrow Villages.
Is crime going up in Hillingdon?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 12%, 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.
What is the most common crime in Hillingdon?
Violence & sexual offences: 9,826 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (3,368) and shoplifting (3,215), with 8,294 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hillingdon compare with Ealing?
Ealing records 33.6 violent and sexual offences and 22.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Hillingdon’s 33.4 and 23, 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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