Yes. Kentish Town is safe, and safer than the borough around it by a clear margin. Its crime rate is about 43% below the Camden average. The largest category is anti-social behaviour. Violence makes up a smaller share of crime here than it does nationally. Camden's reputation mostly shows up in Kentish Town as noise and nuisance.
In the year from June 2025 to May 2026, police recorded 6,771 crimes in Kentish Town, a published rate of about 129 per 1,000 residents. That is about 43% below the average for the London Borough of Camden.
Camden's own published rate for the same year is about 226 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Kentish Town's 129. Both numbers are inside the same borough. Buyers who rule out Camden as a search term are also ruling out its calmer northern end.
Those numbers come from a dense part of London. Kentish Town has about 16,060 people per square kilometre, unemployment of about 4% and about 11% of households overcrowded. These figures describe the neighbourhood around the crime numbers and give no reason for them. Keeping crime 43% below the borough average with that many people packed in is a decent effort.
The mix of crime is less alarming than the total. Anti-social behaviour is the largest category, at about 26% of recorded crime against 16% nationally. Violence and sexual offences come next at about 24%, compared with about 35% across England and Wales. That category is the largest almost everywhere and includes common assault without injury. Other theft is about 7%, close to the national 7%. Vehicle crime is about 7% against 5%, shoplifting about 7% against 8%, and public order offences about 6% against 7%. The only categories clearly above the national share are anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime. For any street on your shortlist, look at the police's own month-by-month crime map, which shows whether the anti-social behaviour reports cluster near one corner or spread across the area.
Charging is decided by the Metropolitan Police across all the boroughs it covers, and it is a separate question from how safe Kentish Town is. Across the year from June 2025 to May 2026, the Metropolitan Police charged a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, ranking 33rd of 42 forces. About 53% of its cases closed with nobody identified as a suspect. In Kentish Town, the low chance of a crime happening is better protection than the chance of anyone being charged for one.
Safety is one of Kentish Town's real strengths. Most of what gets reported here is nuisance, and the rate runs well below the borough average.