Crime Statistics for Mitcham, London, Merton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Mitcham in September 2024. There were a total of 326 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 Mitcham, 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	116
Anti Social Behaviour	67
Vehicle Crime	40
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Burglary	18
Other Theft	16
Drugs	12
Public Order	10
Other Crime	6
Robbery	6
Shoplifting	5
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	326

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 Mitcham. 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 Mitcham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tooting Graveney (1.96 miles)	766
Streatham Park (1.96 miles)	725
Furzedown (1.24 miles)	670
Collier’s Wood (1.39 miles)	669
Streatham Vale (1.39 miles)	650
Streatham (2.24 miles)	637
South Wimbledon (2.24 miles)	508
Morden (1.86 miles)	436
Mitcham	326
Beddington Corner (1.24 miles)	282

Where are the most violent places near Mitcham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tooting Graveney	205
Streatham Park	188
Streatham Vale	187
Furzedown	183
Collier’s Wood	182
Streatham	159
Morden	116
Mitcham	116
Beddington Corner	98
South Wimbledon	85

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

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 Mitcham 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 Mitcham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Figge's Marsh	79
2	Ravensbury	65
3	Wandle Valley	65
4	Longthornton	64
5	Pollards Hill	63
6	St Helier	59
7	Cricket Green	58
8	Graveney	57
9	Colliers Wood	57
10	Lavender Fields	51
11	Beddington North	45

Which road in Mitcham has the highest level of crime?

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