Vehicle crime by area

Car crime in Hounslow

Hounslow (London borough) averaged 3,178 police-recorded vehicle offences a year in 2024/25 and 2025/26, against 90,009 privately kept licensed cars: a rate of 35.3 per 1,000 cars, 2.93× the England and Wales rate of 12.1. It ranks 20 of 316 local authorities (1 is highest).

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Data to 2026-03-31 · Page updated 2026-09-28 · Publisher: 73 Auto

Offences per 1,000 cars: 35.3; 3,178 offences a year, 2024/25 and 2025/26
vs England & Wales: 2.93×; national rate 12.1
Rank: 20 of 316; 20 of 32 london boroughs

How Hounslow compares

Official data. Hounslow's rate is 352% above the median local authority (7.8), which puts it in the highest tenth of the 316 areas.

Among the 32 london boroughs, it is 10% below the middle one (39.2) and ranks 20: in the middle half of its type. Big-city authorities start from a higher base, so this comparison is fairer than the national one.

Hounslow vehicle crime rate compared with national and same-type figures
Comparison	Per 1,000 cars	Hounslow vs it
Hounslow	35.3	—
England and Wales (all offences ÷ all cars)	12.1	2.93×
Median of 316 areas	7.8	4.52×
All london boroughs pooled	38.2	0.92×
Median of london boroughs	39.2	0.90×

Areas ranked either side

Local authorities ranked immediately above and below Hounslow
Rank	Area	Type	Per 1,000 cars
17	Enfield	London borough	38.7
18	Greenwich	London borough	38.0
19	Barking and Dagenham	London borough	36.7
20	Hounslow	London borough	35.3
21	Redbridge	London borough	32.1
22	Hillingdon	London borough	32.1
23	Barnet	London borough	31.7

How the 73 Auto insurance estimate treats Hounslow

73 Auto estimate, not a quote. Hounslow's vehicle-crime index is 2.93 (its rate ÷ the national rate). The model caps the index at 2, so it treats Hounslow like any other area at twice the national rate or more. The collision part of the premium is multiplied by 1.92 (index^0.94) and the theft part by 2.00 (index^1).

Against the UK-average area (index 0.92), that makes the estimate for the reference driver (age 48, clean record, group 20 car) about 84% higher. The estimate uses your postcode district's index, listed below, not the authority figure directly. The area weighting was fitted to 7 published area premiums (leave-one-out error 13% against 19% with no area effect). See how 73 Auto estimates insurance.

Postcode districts mapped to Hounslow

Districts where most privately kept cars are in Hounslow. A district's index is the car-weighted average of the authorities it covers, so the 3 that cross into a neighbouring authority differ from Hounslow's 2.93. The last column is the 73 Auto estimate relativity for the reference driver.

Postcode districts whose cars are mostly in Hounslow, with their vehicle-crime index
District	Cars	Index	Estimate vs UK-average area
TW3	12,583	2.88	1.84×
TW4	9,731	2.81	1.84×
TW5	10,695	2.93	1.84×
TW7	13,672	2.92	1.84×
TW8	7,184	2.93	1.84×
TW13	14,115	2.91	1.84×
TW14	11,677	2.91	1.84×
W4	13,344	3.08	1.84×

Limitations

Police-recorded crime only: unreported offences are missing, and recording practice varies between forces.

The rate is per car registered to a keeper in Hounslow, not per car on its streets. Where many commuters or visitors park, offences against their cars count here while the cars count elsewhere, which pushes the rate up.

Offences a police force did not assign to an area are shared across its areas by car numbers. Scotland and Northern Ireland are not covered.

Estimate insurance for a car kept in Hounslow

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Where these figures come from

Official data: Police recorded crime by Community Safety Partnership, year ending March 2025 and March 2026 — Home Office. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Official data: Licensed vehicles by small area (VEH0125), privately kept cars, 2026 Q2 — Department for Transport. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Official data: Postcode to LSOA to local authority lookup (August 2026) — Office for National Statistics (Open Geography Portal). Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right; contains Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right; contains National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right.
73 Auto analysis: area index and insurance relativities from the Insurance V2 model (insurance-v2.0) — 73 Auto. Our own calculation from the sources above.

Figures labelled as 73 Auto estimates are our own analysis of these sources, set out in the methodology and data sources. To report a factual error, see corrections.