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London borough · E09000033

Westminster

204,242 residents at Census 2021 across 123 LSOAs and 18 wards. Official figures from the loaded datasets, generated 14 Sept 2026.

Residents204,242Census 2021 usual residents, sum of LSOAs
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents354.2Metropolitan Police, latest 12 months
Recorded crime, change on previous 12 months-17.9%Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade incidents per 1,000 residents per year43.29London Fire Brigade, five years
Median first-appliance attendance4:53London Fire Brigade mobilisations, five years (min:sec)
Injury collisions per 1,000 residents per year5.78DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Fatal or serious collisions1,212DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Average house price£854,198UK HPI, latest published month
House prices, annual change-25.4%UK HPI, latest published month
Average private rent£3,179ONS Price Index of Private Rents, all bedrooms, latest published month; borough-level whole private rental stock
Median sale price£791,000HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard transactions in the latest loaded 12-month window

Recorded crime

72,345 offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 88,158 in the previous 12 months (-17.9%). Rate: 354.2 per 1,000 residents, from 123 LSOAs with data under the home-office-2019 classification.

Monthly recorded crime in Westminster, 24 months: 6253, 8095, 9105, 9506, 7305, 6999, 7213, 6760, 6626, 6704, 6927, 6665, 6164, 6574, 7469, 7515, 6059, 5261, 5339, 5506, 5331, 5569, 5953, 5605
Category (12 months)Offences
THEFT43,032
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON11,318
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES3,635
DRUG OFFENCES3,017
VEHICLE OFFENCES2,790
ROBBERY2,754
BURGLARY2,584
ARSON AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE2,271
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY483
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS461

Fire brigade incidents and response

44,210 incidents attended between August 2021 and August 2026, including 4,153 fires of which 875 were in dwellings. First appliance attendance: median 4:53, 90th percentile 7:41 (min:sec, 41,413 observations).

Annual fire brigade incidents in Westminster: 3264, 8762, 8852, 9245, 8660, 5427
Incident groupIncidents
False Alarm27,377
Special Service12,672
Fire4,153
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Road collisions

5,899 police-reported personal-injury collisions from 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025: 19 fatal, 1,193 serious and 4,687 slight.

House prices

UK House Price Index for June 2026: average price £854,198, -25.4% over the year, — sales in the month as published.

UK HPI average price in Westminster, trailing year: 1107293, 1037081, 1051727, 987642, 976798, 917360, 933935, 896082, 856885, 835983, 845825, 854198

Private rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents for July 2026: average monthly rent £3,179 across the whole private rental stock, -2.0% over the year.

Final PRMS context for 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30: published median £2,622 from 1,790 sampled rents. PRMS is discontinued and is not a current trend series.

How the rent figures work

Wards in Westminster

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 Westminster · JSON for all boroughs · MCP tool get_borough_profile("Westminster") · npx civicdata borough "Westminster"

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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