Crime Statistics for Addington, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Addington in October 2024. There were a total of 137 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 Addington, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime55
Anti Social Behaviour15
Vehicle Crime15
Criminal Damage Arson10
Other Theft10
Shoplifting6
Drugs5
Robbery5
Burglary5
Public Order5
Other Crime4
Theft From The Person2
All Crime137

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Addington. 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 Addington

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Addiscombe (2.24 miles)603
Shirley (1.75 miles)425
Monks Orchard (2.24 miles)357
Park Langley (1.96 miles)298
Upper Elmers End (1.96 miles)262
New Addington (1.39 miles)161
Forestdale (1.39 miles)160
Addington137
Spring Park (0.88 miles)129
Coney Hall (1.24 miles)90

24.64%
of Selsdon & Addington Village residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Addington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Park Langley214
Addiscombe151
Shirley126
Monks Orchard100
Upper Elmers End97
Spring Park71
Addington55
New Addington46
Forestdale42
Coney Hall30

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

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 Addington 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 Addington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1New Addington North67
2New Addington South67
3Park Hill & Whitgift63
4Addiscombe East54
5Shirley South50
6Selsdon & Addington Village47
7Selsdon Vale & Forestdale47
8Shirley North44
9Hayes and Coney Hall34
10Sanderstead31
11West Wickham20

Which road in Addington has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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