Yes, Pimlico is one of the calmer corners of Westminster. Its crime rate is about half the borough's. Violence makes up a smaller share of crime here than the national pattern. Pickpockets and nuisance make up a bigger one. It's a safe place to live, so long as you hold on to your phone.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 6,670 crimes in Pimlico in the year from June 2025 to May 2026. The published rate works out at about 221 crimes per 1,000 residents, roughly 50% below the Westminster average. That's a high number for a residential district judged on its own, and it still counts as low by Westminster standards.
The borough figure for the same year is about 440 crimes per 1,000 residents. Westminster's average carries the West End, its theatre crowds and its late-night streets, so set beside the borough, Pimlico's 221 looks like the neighbour who goes home before the second act. The police.uk street map lets a buyer check the exact road they're looking at against the patch around it, and that's worth five minutes for anyone eyeing a flat near the Victoria end.
Pimlico is about as dense as housing gets, at roughly 26,100 people per square kilometre. Unemployment is about 4%, and about 10% of households count as overcrowded. Those are descriptions of the neighbourhood, and none of them explains the crime count on its own. Mostly they mean a lot of people living close together, and plenty more passing through on the way to the station.
The mix is the interesting part, and it only makes sense next to the national shares. Anti-social behaviour is the biggest category here at about 31% of recorded crime, against about 16% across England and Wales. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal grouping that includes common assault without injury, makes up about 17%, half the national share of about 35%. Theft from the person accounts for about 13% against 2% nationally, and other theft about 10% against 7%. Shoplifting, at about 8%, matches the national 8%, and public order, at about 6%, is close to the national 7%. So the typical crime in Pimlico is a lifted wallet or a noisy stairwell, and assault is a smaller part of the picture than it is nationally.
What happens after a report is a separate question. The Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces in England and Wales over the year to May 2026. It closes about 53% of cases with no suspect identified. Those are figures for the whole force, from Pimlico out to the edge of London, and they say nothing about how safe Pimlico itself is. They're the reason a stolen phone is usually a phone you replace.
For safety, Pimlico is one of the strongest residential areas in central London. Crime runs at half the borough's rate, and violence is a small slice of it.