Ealing is about as safe as the rest of its borough, which for west London means ordinary. Its crime rate is a fraction below the borough's. Violence makes up a smaller share of it than it does nationally. Nuisance and car crime make up a bigger one. On a normal day there is nothing here to be frightened of, and the trouble that does happen is aimed at what is parked outside.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 8,420 crimes in Ealing in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 116 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 3% below the average for the London Borough of Ealing, close enough to call it level.
The borough's own published rate for the same year was about 120 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Ealing's 116. Ealing is the borough's administrative centre and its main town, and on these numbers it carries no more than its share of the trouble. The figures run neck and neck, and they will keep doing that as long as Ealing makes up a large slice of the average it is measured against.
Ealing is a crowded district, at about 9,440 people per square kilometre. Unemployment is about 4%, and about 7% of households are overcrowded. Those figures describe the kind of place this is, a dense, busy, mostly employed part of London, and none of them explains the crime rate on its own. Treating density as the cause of crime is a common mistake, and the figures here do not support it.
The mix is where Ealing differs from the country. Anti-social behaviour makes up about 25% of recorded crime here, against 16% across England and Wales. Vehicle crime is about 12%, against 5% nationally. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury and is the largest category almost everywhere, make up about 21% here, against about 35% nationally. Shoplifting at about 8%, other theft at about 8% and public order offences at about 6% are all within a point or so of the national shares. For a car, Ealing is a riskier place than for its owner. To see how that splits for a particular home, look up the surrounding streets on the police's online crime map, which shows where incidents were recorded across the year.
What happens after a report is a separate question, and the answer comes from the force, not from Ealing itself. The Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, and ranks 33rd of 42 forces on that measure. About 53% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures, so they say nothing about how many crimes happen here, only what the odds are of anyone being caught once one has.
Ealing is middling on safety, much like the rest of its borough. The people most likely to have a problem here are the ones who leave things in their car.