Greenford is a fairly safe part of Ealing. Its crime rate is roughly an eighth lower than the borough's. Violence is a smaller share of crime here than it is nationally. Car crime and anti-social behaviour are bigger shares. Most of the trouble here is aimed at parked cars and at street nuisance.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 7,277 crimes across Greenford in the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026. That is a published rate of about 104 per 1,000 residents, roughly 13% below the average for the London Borough of Ealing. It is a borough comparison, and Ealing as a whole is busy, so being below its average is good news within west London, not compared with the whole country.
Across Ealing as a whole, the published rate for the same year was about 120 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Greenford's 104. The gap is real but not large. Greenford is calmer than the borough average, though nobody would call it remote.
Greenford is dense, with an average of about 7,460 people per square kilometre across its neighbourhoods. Unemployment is about 4%, and around 13% of households count as overcrowded. That is a busy, built-up town with a lot of people in it. These facts describe the place. They do not explain the crime rate, and nothing in the police figures links the two.
The mix is more telling than the total. Violence and sexual offences, the largest category almost everywhere, make up about 28% of Greenford's recorded crime against about 35% nationally. That category also covers common assault where nobody was injured. Anti-social behaviour is about 23% here against 16% nationally. Vehicle crime is about 11% against 5%, and drugs offences about 7% against 4%. Shoplifting, at 6% against 8%, and other theft, at 6% against 7%, are close to the national mix. The categories where Greenford runs high are crimes against parked cars and nuisance in public, more than crimes against people. The Metropolitan Police's online crime map shows recorded incidents street by street, and the streets around a particular home can look different from the town figure.
As for what happens after a report, the Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% across forces nationally, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces. About 53% of the Metropolitan Police's cases are closed with no suspect identified. Those are figures for the whole force across London, so they say nothing about Greenford's own streets. They measure the odds of someone being caught, not the odds of a crime happening.
Greenford is one of the safer parts of Ealing. Its above-average strengths show up in the categories that hurt people, and the parked car is what most needs looking after.