Bromley had London’s biggest fall in home burglary, down 21.2% in a year

Bromley had the biggest fall in home burglary of any London borough in the twelve months from September 2025 to August 2026. The Metropolitan Police recorded 659 home burglaries there, down from 836 in the previous twelve months, a fall of 21.2%.

Hackney was barely behind. Its count went from 927 to 731, a fall of 21.1%, so only a fraction of a percentage point separates the two. Sutton came third with a fall of 18.6%, from 526 to 428. Westminster, down 17.9%, and Haringey, down 17.1%, were the only other boroughs with falls larger than Hammersmith and Fulham’s 16.1%.

Which London boroughs saw home burglary rise

At the other end of the table, Bexley had the biggest rise by some distance. Recorded home burglary there went from 363 to 481, up 32.5%. Hounslow was next, up 17.0% from 635 to 743. Redbridge, Enfield and Ealing also rose by more than a tenth, at 10.9%, 10.7% and 10.2%.

Barnet recorded the most home burglaries of any borough, 1,351 in the latest twelve months, although that was 5.7% fewer than the 1,432 recorded the year before. Kingston upon Thames recorded the fewest, with 270.

Home burglary across London as a whole

Across the 32 boroughs the Met covers, recorded home burglary fell from 23,941 to 23,048, down 3.7%. It fell in 19 boroughs and rose in 13. That modest London-wide change sits on top of much larger movements at borough level, in both directions.

Some of the boroughs with the highest counts moved in opposite directions. Croydon fell 12.8% to 967 and Southwark fell 8.3% to 946, while Enfield rose to 1,284 and Ealing to 1,055. Brent barely moved, up 1.1%.

How2London worked these figures out from MPS Recorded Crime: Geographic Breakdown, the borough-level crime file that the Metropolitan Police Service publishes on the London Datastore. We added up every offence recorded as burglary of a home in each borough for both twelve-month periods and compared the totals.

What the burglary figures do not show

These are offences the police recorded, not offences that happened. If more or fewer people report a break-in, or the way offences are recorded changes, the count moves too. The figures are raw counts, not adjusted for how many people live, work or travel through each borough, so they cannot tell you which borough is safest. The City of London has its own police force and does not appear in the data.

A fall in one borough does not by itself mean a particular street there has become safer, and a rise does not mean the opposite. What the table does show is how many home burglaries the Met recorded in each borough over two consecutive years.