Photo: KTo288 · CC BY-SA 3.0Hounslow stands out for theft from the person: 4.5 times the rate of a typical town its size
Recorded violence rose 8% in a year. For every 1,000 residents, 35.2 violent and sexual offences and 21.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were logged a year. Taking everything together, Hounslow scores C− (#14 of 33 in London): more crime per resident than 85% of UK towns, measured on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026. Violent crime here is higher than in 78% of UK towns; burglary, vehicle crime and damage, higher than in 94%.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hounslow
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 8% more violent crime per resident in Hounslow 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 14% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 43 UK towns and cities of 201,000 to 387,000 people, Hounslow has the 17th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Lambeth, Newham and Southwark, higher than Hillingdon, Enfield and Brent. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Hounslow’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 48,652 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hounslow 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, Hounslow runs highest on theft from the person (3 per 1,000 against 0.7), vehicle crime (9 per 1,000 against 4.9) and bicycle theft (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.9). 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 | 9,843 | 34.3 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 6,693 | 23.4 | 17.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 2,567 | 9 | 4.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2,442 | 8.5 | 10.3 |
| Other theft | not graded | 2,211 | 7.7 | 6.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 2,014 | 7 | 7.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1,410 | 4.9 | 3.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 1,295 | 4.5 | 7.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 1,217 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 854 | 3 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 574 | 2 | 1.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 399 | 1.4 | 0.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 388 | 1.4 | 2.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 201 | 0.7 | 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 Hounslow identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 86% of Hounslow’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 43% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (41% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% 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. 16,808 crimes.
Crime in Hounslow 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 18 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 21 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How Hounslow’s neighbourhoods rank in England
4% 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.
Hounslow’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 Hounslow 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 +8% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -14% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft -7% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -5% (towns its size -2%).
Lowest recorded crime in Hounslow South, Chiswick Riverside and Osterley & Spring Grove; highest in Syon & Brentford Lock
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hounslow South | 13,741 | 19.3 | 13.1 | |
| Chiswick Riverside | 10,298 | 19.7 | 20.8 | |
| Osterley & Spring Grove | 14,661 | 25 | 17.1 | |
| Isleworth | 13,801 | 23.1 | 19.3 | |
| Hanworth Village | 16,262 | 29.9 | 15 | |
| Heston Central | 14,532 | 31.8 | 14.4 | |
| Bedfont | 14,755 | 32.5 | 14.2 | |
| Heston East | 11,162 | 32.5 | 16.2 | |
| Brentford West | 7,874 | 27.8 | 22.7 | |
| Chiswick Homefields | 13,463 | 22.1 | 32.4 | |
| Cranford | 16,026 | 35.2 | 19.6 | |
| Hounslow Heath | 16,080 | 38 | 16.9 | |
| Heston West | 15,729 | 33.7 | 23.8 | |
| Hounslow West | 15,916 | 40.9 | 17.2 | |
| Feltham North | 12,906 | 41.7 | 21 | |
| Brentford East | 8,690 | 35.1 | 27.9 | |
| Hanworth Park | 10,401 | 46.5 | 20.8 | |
| Feltham West | 15,708 | 45 | 22.3 | |
| Hounslow East | 8,670 | 45.4 | 23.1 | |
| Chiswick Gunnersbury | 12,308 | 29.7 | 46.7 | |
| Hounslow Central | 10,660 | 62.8 | 22.6 | |
| Syon & Brentford Lock | 12,948 | 59.9 | 33.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 7,577 | 34% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 3,586 | 45% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 2,525 | 47% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 2,443 | 49% shoplifting & theft |
| Nightclubs | 1,300 | 58% anti-social behaviour |
| Hospitals | 1,053 | 53% violent |
| Police stations | 735 | 34% violent |
| Bus and coach stations | 458 | 39% anti-social behaviour |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 432 | 27% homes & vehicles |
| College and university buildings | 425 | 32% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Hounslow Central records 1.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Hounslow. 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 Hounslow. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Hounslow’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Hounslow is 17th of 43 UK towns of 201,000 to 387,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harrow London | 260,534 | 23.3 | 15.4 | 16 | C+ |
| 2 | Merton London | 214,931 | 24.2 | 14.8 | 16.1 | C+ |
| 3 | Sutton London | 208,858 | 27.1 | 14.6 | 13.3 | C |
| 4 | Bexley London | 246,074 | 26.1 | 17.5 | 14.3 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 14 | Hillingdon London | 307,089 | 33.4 | 23 | 23.6 | C− |
| 15 | Enfield London | 329,822 | 32.6 | 24 | 20.6 | C− |
| 16 | Brent London | 340,611 | 35.9 | 20.8 | 26.2 | C− |
| 17 | Hounslow London | 286,591 | 35.2 | 21.5 | 21.8 | C− |
| 18 | Greenwich London | 288,117 | 38.3 | 20.8 | 22.9 | D |
| 19 | Lewisham London | 300,764 | 38.8 | 21.2 | 23.5 | D |
| 20 | Barking and Dagenham London | 218,236 | 40.5 | 20 | 17.5 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 43 | 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 Hounslow, and others in London.
17 people died in collisions on Hounslow’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 3,201 collisions with injuries inside Hounslow in five years, in which 17 people died (10 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist). 638 people were killed or seriously injured: 220 on foot and 130 on a bicycle.
That is 1.2 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, Hounslow had 44.5 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). 34% 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 Hounslow’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Hounslow
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hounslow | 286,591 | 35.2 | 21.5 | C− |
| Richmond upon Thames | 192,888 | 18.8 | 17.9 | C+ |
| Ealing | 367,271 | 33.6 | 22.2 | C− |
| Sunbury-on-Thames | 21,476 | 31.9 | 18 | C− |
| Ashford Common | 8,333 | 19.3 | 10.8 | B |
| Stanwell | 11,728 | 39.8 | 19.6 | D |
| Ashford | 22,823 | 31.5 | 15.4 | C |
| Upper Halliford | 2,337 | 23.7 | 11.3 | B− |
Hounslow records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Stanwell records more. Richmond upon Thames, 2.2 miles away, records 18.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hounslow’s 35.2.
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
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 1,053 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Hounslow’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 Hounslow 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 Hounslow
Is Hounslow safe?
Police recorded 35.2 violent and sexual offences and 21.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hounslow’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 15% of UK towns. Among 43 UK towns of 201,000 to 387,000 people, Hounslow is 17th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Hounslow?
By council ward, Hounslow South, Chiswick Riverside and Osterley & Spring Grove record the least violent and household crime per resident: 19.3, 19.7 and 25 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 59.9 in Syon & Brentford Lock.
Is crime going up in Hounslow?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 8%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 14%, shoplifting and theft fell 7% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Hounslow town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 1,300 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 9% of them violent, and Hounslow Central ward records 62.8 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 Hounslow?
Violence & sexual offences: 9,843 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came vehicle crime (2,567) and shoplifting (2,442), with 6,693 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hounslow 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 Hounslow’s 35.2 and 21.5, 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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