Crime Statistics for South Merstham, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Merstham in September 2024. There were a total of 93 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Merstham, 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	31
Shoplifting	19
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Public Order	9
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Drugs	4
Other Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	93

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 Merstham. 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 Merstham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Holmethorpe (0.88 miles)	192
Redhill (1.75 miles)	183
Coles Meads (1.39 miles)	180
Earlswood (1.96 miles)	103
South Merstham	93
Gatton (1.39 miles)	37
Warwick Wold (1.24 miles)	22
Brewer Street (1.96 miles)	12
Nutfield (1.39 miles)	11
South Nutfield (1.96 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near South Merstham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Coles Meads	81
Holmethorpe	67
Redhill	63
Earlswood	33
South Merstham	31
Warwick Wold	24
Gatton	19
Brewer Street	9
South Nutfield	3
Nutfield	2

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

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 Merstham 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 Merstham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Merstham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Merstham is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bletchingley and Nutfield	66
2	Hooley, Merstham & Netherne	62
3	Earlswood & Whitebushes	43
4	Redhill East	40
5	South Park & Woodhatch	40
6	Lower Kingswood, Tadworth & Walton	35
7	Redhill West & Wray Common	35
8	Meadvale & St John's	34
9	Horley East & Salfords	33
10	Reigate	27
11	Chaldon	23

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

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