Crime Statistics for Balham, London, Wandsworth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Balham in October 2024. There were a total of 600 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Balham, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	126
Anti Social Behaviour	115
Vehicle Crime	69
Other Theft	55
Theft From The Person	46
Shoplifting	41
Burglary	40
Public Order	39
Robbery	22
Criminal Damage Arson	18
Drugs	12
Bicycle Theft	8
Other Crime	7
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	600

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Balham. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Balham

We've taken the ten nearest places to Balham and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Balham has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Stockwell (1.75 miles)	1705
Clapham (1.39 miles)	1579
Tooting Graveney (1.39 miles)	1125
Clapham Park (0.88 miles)	847
Streatham Hill (1.24 miles)	729
Streatham Park (1.39 miles)	639
Balham	600
Streatham (1.75 miles)	552
Earlsfield (1.24 miles)	457
Southfields (1.86 miles)	393

Where are the most violent places near Balham?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Balham and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Clapham	337
Tooting Graveney	304
Stockwell	295
Streatham	178
Streatham Park	170
Streatham Hill	164
Earlsfield	156
Clapham Park	145
Southfields	130
Balham	126

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Balham?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Balham to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Balham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Balham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Balham is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Leonard's	74
2	Tooting	71
3	Clapham Common	66
4	Graveney	64
5	Bedford	63
6	Wandsworth Common	62
7	Thornton	58
8	Balham	58
9	Nightingale	55
10	Furzedown	48
11	Earlsfield	42

Which road in Balham has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Balham with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Tantallon Road.