Wembley Park is about as safe as the rest of Brent, which puts it in the middle rather than at either end. Its crime rate is a little above the borough's. Violence is a smaller share of the total than the national picture. Pickpocketing is a much bigger one. For most residents, crime here is a nuisance more than a threat.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 10,260 crimes in Wembley Park in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 141 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 9% above the Brent average.
The rate across the whole London Borough of Brent over the same year was about 130 per 1,000, so the gap between Wembley Park's 141 and the borough's 130 is real but modest. Wembley Park comes out close to its borough. It is neither an outlier nor a pocket of calm.
Wembley Park is a crowded place to live, with an average of about 12,700 people per square kilometre across its neighbourhoods. About 19% of households are overcrowded, and unemployment was about 4% at the 2021 census. None of those figures explains the crime rate by itself, and none should be read as its cause, but they describe the kind of busy, packed-in district the police are covering. Humphry Repton landscaped this ground because it was so free from interruption. These days the neighbours supply plenty.
The breakdown by type is more reassuring than the headline figure. Violence and sexual offences make up about 26% of recorded crime here, against about 35% across England and Wales. That category also covers common assault without injury, so it sounds worse than it often is. Anti-social behaviour is about 20%, against 16% nationally. Theft from the person, mainly phones and wallets taken from pockets and bags, is about 9% here against about 2% nationally, the clearest difference of any category. Drugs offences account for about 8%, against 4%. Shoplifting, at about 8%, and other theft, at about 8%, are close to the national shares of 8% and 7%. In short, people here are more likely to have something stolen and less likely to be hurt than the national figures would suggest. Look up the exact street on the police's own crime map, because a block next to the busiest walking routes and one on a back road in Preston will have different records.
Once a crime is reported, the Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, and ranks 33rd of 42 forces in England and Wales on that measure. About 53% of its cases close with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures covering all of London, and they tell you how likely the police are to catch someone. They say nothing about how likely you are to be a victim, and a phone taken in a crowd will rarely be found.
Wembley Park is middling for safety. The crime that is above average here is mostly small and opportunistic, so a buyer is more likely to lose a phone than to have anything worse happen.