Crime Statistics for South Lambeth, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Lambeth in September 2024. There were a total of 2000 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 South Lambeth, 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	471
Anti Social Behaviour	308
Theft From The Person	185
Other Theft	171
Shoplifting	154
Vehicle Crime	133
Public Order	130
Burglary	119
Criminal Damage Arson	105
Drugs	92
Robbery	82
Other Crime	22
Bicycle Theft	15
Possession Of Weapons	13
All Crime	2000

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 South Lambeth. 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 South Lambeth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walworth (1.75 miles)	1788
Clapham (0.88 miles)	1681
Lambeth (1.24 miles)	1573
Stockwell (0.62 miles)	1511
Brixton (0.88 miles)	1441
Kennington (0.62 miles)	1389
South Lambeth	1239
Pimlico (1.39 miles)	1152
Battersea (1.24 miles)	1000
Clapham Park (1.39 miles)	608

Where are the most violent places near South Lambeth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Lambeth	471
Walworth	351
Clapham	348
Stockwell	325
Brixton	297
Lambeth	296
Kennington	283
Battersea	270
Clapham Park	260
Pimlico	256

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

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 South Lambeth 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 South Lambeth compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ferndale	84
2	Larkhall	80
3	Coldharbour	80
4	Clapham Town	78
5	Vassall	77
6	Brixton Hill	75
7	Oval	75
8	Tulse Hill	71
9	Clapham Common	66
10	Stockwell	64
11	Churchill	46

Which road in South Lambeth has the highest level of crime?

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