Crime Statistics for Kennington, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kennington in September 2024. There were a total of 1389 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	290
Violent Crime	283
Theft From The Person	178
Other Theft	112
Shoplifting	84
Burglary	83
Criminal Damage Arson	71
Robbery	64
Vehicle Crime	62
Public Order	58
Drugs	49
Bicycle Theft	30
Other Crime	18
Possession Of Weapons	7
All Crime	1389

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 Kennington. 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 Kennington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
The Borough (1.75 miles)	1799
Walworth (1.39 miles)	1788
Clapham (1.39 miles)	1681
Lambeth (0.62 miles)	1573
Stockwell (1.24 miles)	1511
Brixton (1.39 miles)	1441
Kennington	1389
South Lambeth (0.62 miles)	1239
Pimlico (0.88 miles)	1152
Battersea (1.39 miles)	1000

Where are the most violent places near Kennington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
The Borough	592
South Lambeth	471
Walworth	351
Clapham	348
Stockwell	325
Brixton	297
Lambeth	296
Kennington	283
Battersea	270
Pimlico	256

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

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 Kennington 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 Kennington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kennington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Kennington is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ferndale	84
2	Larkhall	80
3	Camberwell Green	79
4	Clapham Town	78
5	Vassall	77
6	Oval	75
7	Stockwell	64
8	Queenstown	60
9	Prince's	59
10	Churchill	46
11	Tachbrook	46

Which road in Kennington has the highest level of crime?

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