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Richmond upon Thames, London

🟢 Official crime data · Police-recorded crime, data.police.uk · May–July 2026 Methodology →

Relatively safer day Relatively safer night

Relative rank 2 among boroughs currently covered. Based on official Metropolitan Police data, averaged over 3 months (2026-05 to 2026-07).

Real administrative boundary — Office for National Statistics 2021 boundaries, not an approximate circle.

Recorded incidents (total across 3 months, 2026-05–2026-07)
CategoryCount
Violent crime1113
Anti social behaviour1024
Vehicle crime414
Other theft318
Shoplifting318
Public order214
Burglary173
Bicycle theft103
Drugs68
Theft from the person68
Robbery65
Other crime36
Criminal damage arson10
Possession of weapons9

3933 incidents total over 3 months — averages 1311.0/month, which is what the day/night scores below are based on.

Data completeness: full months, real administrative boundary — 3933 recorded incidents total across 3 months (2026-05–2026-07), queried against Richmond upon Thames's actual ONS 2021 polygon outline (the same shape shown on the map above), not an approximate circle. This is the complete monthly response from the UK Police API for each month in that window. Day score: 1.858 weighted incidents/1,000 people, averaged over the last 3 months (73% of the 33-area average). Night score: 7.576 weighted incidents/1,000 people, same window (60% of the 33-area average). Both are normalised by plain 2021 resident population (195,300) — no separate workday/footfall figure exists for Richmond upon Thames in the ONS's 2011 workday-population release (the most recent one published), so no correction is applied here (ratio 1.0) rather than guessing one. This means Richmond upon Thames's score may be slightly overstated relative to boroughs where a real commuter/footfall correction could be applied — see methodology. Rated against the average of the 33 areas currently on the automated pipeline — 32 boroughs and the City of London.
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Frequently asked questions

Is Richmond upon Thames safe?

Based on real, current UK Police data, Wandroz rates Richmond upon Thames as relatively safer than most other neighbourhoods in London during the day and relatively safer than most other neighbourhoods in London at night, relative to the other London boroughs currently on the automated pipeline. The rating comes from 3933 recorded incidents over 3 months (2026-05 to 2026-07), split into a day-weighted score (property crime) and a night-weighted score (violence, robbery, antisocial behaviour).

Is Richmond upon Thames safe at night?

Richmond upon Thames's night score is relatively safer than most other neighbourhoods in London, based on the categories most relevant after dark (violence, robbery, street theft, public order, antisocial behaviour), normalised by an estimated workday/footfall population rather than plain residents where that data exists, so busy central boroughs aren't overstated as riskier just for having fewer official residents.

What official data is Richmond upon Thames's rating based on?

3933 recorded incidents from data.police.uk (the UK Police's official open crime API), queried against Richmond upon Thames's real administrative boundary and covering 3 months (2026-05 to 2026-07) — recomputed from the source data whenever the Met publishes new months, not a one-off snapshot. Full category breakdown is shown further down this page.

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