Crime Statistics for Lower Sydenham, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Sydenham in September 2024. There were a total of 619 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 Lower Sydenham, 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	162
Anti Social Behaviour	133
Shoplifting	66
Vehicle Crime	64
Other Theft	37
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Public Order	31
Burglary	29
Drugs	20
Theft From The Person	17
Robbery	14
Other Crime	7
Bicycle Theft	5
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	619

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 Lower Sydenham. 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 Lower Sydenham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Sydenham	619
Penge (0.88 miles)	610
Bell Green (0.88 miles)	589
Anerley (1.39 miles)	570
New Beckenham (0.88 miles)	457
Forest Hill (1.24 miles)	450
Dulwich (0.88 miles)	442
Bellingham (1.24 miles)	427
Dulwich Village (1.75 miles)	347
Beckenham (1.75 miles)	273

Where are the most violent places near Lower Sydenham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bell Green	174
Forest Hill	173
Penge	171
Anerley	164
Lower Sydenham	162
Dulwich	150
New Beckenham	100
Bellingham	99
Dulwich Village	69
Beckenham	62

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

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 Lower Sydenham 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 Lower Sydenham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Gipsy Hill	78
2	Crystal Palace	76
3	Penge and Cator	72
4	Sydenham	70
5	Perry Vale	68
6	Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood	67
7	Dulwich Wood	66
8	Forest Hill	60
9	Crofton Park	46
10	Kelsey and Eden Park	46
11	Clock House	42

Which road in Lower Sydenham has the highest level of crime?

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