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25,825 recorded crimes in the year to August 2026 — violence and ASB top the list

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Published 2026-10-28 · Hammersmith.info · Based on public sources listed below

police.uk street-level data inside the local boundary shows 25,825 recorded crimes from September 2025 to August 2026. Violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting were the largest categories.

Data as of: police.uk street-level crime, Sep 2025–Aug 2026, aggregated to the local authority boundary. Checked 28 Oct 2026.

Aggregated Metropolitan Police street-level records from police.uk show 25,825 crimes whose mapped points fall inside the Hammersmith & Fulham boundary over the twelve months from September 2025 to August 2026.

The largest categories in that window were: violence and sexual offences (5,969), anti-social behaviour (5,455), shoplifting (2,879), other theft (2,094), public order (1,552), vehicle crime (1,477), drugs (1,055) and burglary (1,005).

These counts reflect reporting and policing patterns — they are not a league table of how safe a street feels. We do not publish individual incident details that could identify victims or exact addresses.

Explore the same totals on In numbers and use police.uk’s own map for street-level browsing.

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