Crime Statistics for Herne Hill, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Herne Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 823 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	206
Violent Crime	145
Vehicle Crime	98
Robbery	64
Burglary	52
Other Theft	51
Criminal Damage Arson	46
Drugs	42
Theft From The Person	41
Public Order	26
Shoplifting	26
Bicycle Theft	14
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	823

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 Herne Hill. 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 Herne Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stockwell (1.39 miles)	1511
Brixton (0.88 miles)	1441
Peckham (1.75 miles)	1398
Streatham Hill (1.39 miles)	1359
South Lambeth (1.75 miles)	1239
Tulse Hill (0.88 miles)	722
Herne Hill	647
Knight’s Hill (0.62 miles)	513
Dulwich (1.75 miles)	442
Dulwich Village (0.88 miles)	347

Where are the most violent places near Herne Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Lambeth	471
Peckham	353
Stockwell	325
Streatham Hill	311
Brixton	297
Tulse Hill	168
Dulwich	150
Herne Hill	145
Knight’s Hill	109
Dulwich Village	69

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

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 Herne Hill 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 Herne Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Herne Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Herne Hill is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ferndale	84
2	Coldharbour	80
3	Thurlow Park	75
4	Brixton Hill	75
5	Tulse Hill	71
6	Streatham Hill	69
7	Herne Hill	67
8	Dulwich Village	66
9	Goose Green	58
10	Dulwich Hill	53
11	Champion Hill	47

Which road in Herne Hill has the highest level of crime?

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