Westminster recorded the highest number of burglaries of any London borough over the past year, with nearly 52,000 break-ins across the capital in total, according to Metropolitan Police crime data.
The Met’s crime dashboard recorded 51,854 burglary offences across London between September 2025 and September 2026. The figure was 3.9 per cent lower than the previous 12-month period ending September 2025 — a fall, but one that still leaves the capital averaging around 142 burglaries a day.
Westminster topped the borough table with 2,771 offences over the year. It also had the highest rate, at 10.6 burglaries per 1,000 people — meaning it leads on both measures, not just on raw numbers. Westminster alone accounted for more than one in every 20 burglaries in London.
Tower Hamlets was a close second by total, with 2,750 offences — just 21 fewer than Westminster — but its rate was lower, at 8.7 per 1,000 people. Southwark recorded the third-highest number, with 2,544 offences and a rate of 7.9 per 1,000. Camden followed with 2,315 offences, but its rate of 9.3 per 1,000 put it second on that measure, ahead of Tower Hamlets and Southwark.
The distinction between totals and rates matters. A borough with more homes, more people and more commercial premises will tend to record more offences in absolute terms; the rate, which adjusts for population, gives a better sense of the risk to an individual household. On that basis, Westminster’s position at the top of both tables is the standout finding, while Camden’s high rate relative to its total is easy to miss if only the headline counts are read.
Other boroughs with notable totals included Barnet, with 2,378 offences, and Hackney with 2,034. Ealing recorded 2,003, Lambeth 1,998, Newham 1,934, Brent 1,926, Croydon 1,816, Wandsworth 1,745, Lewisham 1,743 and Hillingdon 1,570.
At the lower end of the table, Kingston upon Thames recorded 547 offences, the smallest borough total displayed — roughly a fifth of Westminster’s figure. Merton had 747, Sutton 791, Bexley 843, Richmond upon Thames 854 and Havering 903.
Burglary covers theft or attempted theft from premises where access is unauthorised, and the dashboard figures include both homes and other premises. The 3.9 per cent year-on-year fall suggests the trend is moving in the right direction, but the scale of the problem remains stark: more than 51,000 offences in a single year, with the central boroughs — Westminster, Tower Hamlets, Southwark and Camden — all featuring prominently at the top of the table.
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