Crime Statistics for Cheam, London, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cheam in September 2024. There were a total of 51 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 Cheam, 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	12
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Vehicle Crime	7
Burglary	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Public Order	5
Drugs	2
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	51

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Cheam. 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 Cheam

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Carshalton (2.24 miles)	824
Benhilton (2.24 miles)	505
Ewell (1.86 miles)	425
Carshalton on the Hill (2.56 miles)	202
Carshalton Beeches (1.96 miles)	184
Banstead (1.96 miles)	178
Belmont (0.62 miles)	115
Stoneleigh (1.75 miles)	94
North Looe (1.75 miles)	78
Cheam	51

Where are the most violent places near Cheam?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Carshalton	209
Ewell	148
Benhilton	135
Banstead	80
Carshalton Beeches	52
Carshalton on the Hill	46
Belmont	40
Stoneleigh	34
North Looe	18
Cheam	12

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

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 Cheam 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 Cheam compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cheam and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Cheam have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Ewell.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ewell	61
2	Sutton Central	56
3	Nonsuch	38
4	Sutton West	37
5	Stoneleigh	30
6	Sutton South	30
7	Nork	30
8	Nonsuch	29
9	College	28
10	Belmont	22
11	Cheam	22

Which road in Cheam has the highest level of crime?

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