Crime Statistics for Kenley, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kenley in October 2024. There were a total of 84 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 Kenley, 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	24
Shoplifting	24
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Other Theft	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Burglary	3
Public Order	2
Drugs	1
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	84

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 Kenley. 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 Kenley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Roundshaw (2.78 miles)	269
South Croydon (2.49 miles)	213
Hamsey Green (1.86 miles)	188
Sanderstead (1.39 miles)	154
Russell Hill (1.76 miles)	154
Caterham (2.56 miles)	119
Warlingham (1.96 miles)	88
Kenley	84
Old Coulsdon (1.39 miles)	66
Little Woodcote (2.77 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Kenley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Croydon	136
Roundshaw	70
Hamsey Green	54
Caterham	50
Russell Hill	45
Sanderstead	41
Old Coulsdon	33
Warlingham	32
Kenley	24
Little Woodcote	8

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

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 Kenley 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 Kenley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Hooley, Merstham & Netherne	62
2	Whyteleafe	44
3	Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown	43
4	Westway	43
5	Coulsdon Town	39
6	Purley & Woodcote	38
7	Old Coulsdon	37
8	Portley	29
9	Carshalton South and Clockhouse	28
10	Kenley	27
11	Chaldon	23

Which road in Kenley has the highest level of crime?

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