Norwood Green has more recorded crime than the rest of Ealing, and the village green does not change that. The rate runs roughly two-fifths above the borough's. Anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime take a bigger share than they do nationally. Violence takes a smaller one. It is a place with a lot of nuisance and less of the frightening stuff, and for a buyer that is the useful distinction.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 8,205 crimes in Norwood Green in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 167 per 1,000 residents. That puts it roughly 40% above the average for Ealing. The postcard version of the place, with the church and the pub on the green, describes the scenery more than the crime figures.
Across Ealing as a whole over the same twelve months, the rate was about 120 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Norwood Green's 167. Ealing is not a quiet borough to begin with, so being well above it means something. Nearby Hounslow and Southall are part of the same busy patch of west London, and the green does not come with its own boundary.
The neighbourhoods here average about 11,800 people per square kilometre, unemployment is around 5%, and about 24% of households are overcrowded. That describes a dense, busy part of outer London with a lot of people in not much space. None of it causes crime by itself. It does mean more people, more cars and more front doors in each street, which is the setting the crime figures are counted in.
The crime mix is where the headline gets more useful. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal grouping that includes common assault without injury, make up about 27% of recorded crime here, against about 35% across England and Wales, so this category is smaller here than usual. Anti-social behaviour is about 25%, against 16% nationally, and vehicle crime about 9%, against 5%. Shoplifting, at about 9%, is close to the national 8%, and other theft and public order are both slightly below the national shares. Look up the exact street on the police's online crime map for its last few months. The excess here comes from cars and anti-social behaviour, which is a nuisance for whoever parks on the street and does not much trouble anyone else.
Once a crime is reported, the Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces. About 53% of the force's cases close with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures for the whole of London and describe what happens after a report, not how likely a report is in Norwood Green. Anyone whose car is broken into here should expect a crime number more than an arrest.
Norwood Green is less safe than most of Ealing, and a buyer should go in expecting that. Most of the gap comes from parked cars and anti-social behaviour, which are worth weighing street by street, while violence and sexual offences make up a smaller share of the total here than they do nationally.