Crime Statistics for Knight’s Hill, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Knight’s Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 513 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	110
Violent Crime	109
Vehicle Crime	70
Other Theft	33
Burglary	32
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Robbery	31
Shoplifting	25
Theft From The Person	23
Drugs	18
Public Order	14
Bicycle Theft	11
Other Crime	5
All Crime	513

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 Knight’s 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 Knight’s Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stockwell (1.75 miles)	1511
Brixton (1.39 miles)	1441
Streatham Hill (1.24 miles)	1359
Tulse Hill (0.62 miles)	722
Herne Hill (0.62 miles)	647
Streatham (1.75 miles)	637
Knight’s Hill	513
Forest Hill (1.86 miles)	450
Dulwich (1.39 miles)	442
Dulwich Village (0.62 miles)	347

Where are the most violent places near Knight’s Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stockwell	325
Streatham Hill	311
Brixton	297
Forest Hill	173
Tulse Hill	168
Streatham	159
Dulwich	150
Herne Hill	145
Knight’s Hill	109
Dulwich Village	69

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Knight’s 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 Knight’s 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 Knight’s Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Knight’s Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Knight’s Hill is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Coldharbour	80
2	Thurlow Park	75
3	Brixton Hill	75
4	St Leonard's	74
5	Tulse Hill	71
6	Streatham Hill	69
7	Knight's Hill	69
8	Dulwich Wood	66
9	Dulwich Village	66
10	Streatham Wells	56
11	Dulwich Hill	53

Which road in Knight’s Hill has the highest level of crime?

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