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London borough · E09000020

Kensington and Chelsea

143,376 residents at Census 2021 across 101 LSOAs and 18 wards. Official figures from the loaded datasets, generated 28 Oct 2026.

Residents143,376Census 2021 usual residents, sum of LSOAs
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents145.3Metropolitan Police, latest 12 months
Recorded crime, change on previous 12 months-8.2%Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade incidents per 1,000 residents per year30.69London Fire Brigade, five years
Median first-appliance attendance4:17London Fire Brigade mobilisations, five years (min:sec)
Injury collisions per 1,000 residents per year4.19DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Fatal or serious collisions574DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Average house price£1,204,072UK HPI, latest published month
House prices, annual change-13.8%UK HPI, latest published month
Average private rent£3,739ONS Price Index of Private Rents, all bedrooms, latest published month; borough-level whole private rental stock
Median sale price£1,045,000HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard transactions in the latest loaded 12-month window

Recorded crime

20,829 offences in the 12 months to September 2026, against 22,693 in the previous 12 months (-8.2%). Rate: 145.3 per 1,000 residents, from 101 LSOAs with data under the home-office-2019 classification.

Monthly recorded crime in Kensington and Chelsea, 24 months: 1971, 1945, 1826, 1691, 1693, 1789, 1738, 1829, 1925, 1959, 2638, 1689, 1885, 1703, 1689, 1654, 1437, 1601, 1538, 1582, 1691, 1730, 2216, 2103
Category (12 months)Offences
THEFT8,691
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON4,518
VEHICLE OFFENCES2,072
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES1,235
BURGLARY1,234
DRUG OFFENCES1,218
ARSON AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE1,007
ROBBERY528
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY198
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS128

Fire brigade incidents and response

22,000 incidents attended between August 2021 and August 2026, including 1,310 fires of which 518 were in dwellings. First appliance attendance: median 4:17, 90th percentile 6:54 (min:sec, 20,630 observations).

Annual fire brigade incidents in Kensington and Chelsea: 1660, 4136, 4287, 4453, 4628, 2836
Incident groupIncidents
False Alarm13,032
Special Service7,651
Fire1,310
NULL7

Road collisions

3,003 police-reported personal-injury collisions from 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025: 13 fatal, 561 serious and 2,429 slight.

House prices

UK House Price Index for August 2026: average price £1,204,072, -13.8% over the year, — sales in the month as published.

UK HPI average price in Kensington and Chelsea, trailing year: 1392598, 1374461, 1382430, 1316518, 1315018, 1310028, 1322108, 1363307, 1335739, 1324073, 1257453, 1204072

Private rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents for September 2026: average monthly rent £3,739 across the whole private rental stock, +3.0% over the year.

Final PRMS context for 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30: published median £2,557 from 2,730 sampled rents. PRMS is discontinued and is not a current trend series.

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Wards in Kensington and Chelsea

Current ONS wards with the same factual measures. LSOA-published figures use the documented best-fit assignment; Price Paid sales use each transaction postcode's current ward.

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JSON for Kensington and Chelsea · JSON for all boroughs · MCP tool get_borough_profile("Kensington and Chelsea") · npx civicdata borough "Kensington and Chelsea"

Caveats

  • Borough figures aggregate every loaded record in the borough. Rates per 1,000 residents divide by the sum of Census 2021 LSOA usual-resident populations, which can differ slightly from ONS published borough totals because of statistical disclosure control.
  • Rates use resident population only. Boroughs with large daytime, visitor or commuter populations (for example Westminster, Camden and the City of London) record events involving many people who do not live there.
  • Fire and road-collision periods are the five years ending at the latest loaded data; crime compares the latest 12 source months with the preceding 12. Road collisions are STATS19 personal-injury collisions assigned through the collision LSOA, with a nearest-postcode fallback within 250 metres.
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