Crime Statistics for Monks Orchard, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Monks Orchard in October 2024. There were a total of 357 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 Monks Orchard, 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	100
Anti Social Behaviour	70
Vehicle Crime	42
Other Theft	27
Shoplifting	25
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Public Order	17
Drugs	14
Burglary	11
Robbery	9
Possession Of Weapons	6
Bicycle Theft	5
Theft From The Person	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	357

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 Monks Orchard. 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 Monks Orchard

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Norwood (1.39 miles)	1251
Addiscombe (0.88 miles)	603
Anerley (1.39 miles)	586
Shirley (0.62 miles)	425
Monks Orchard	357
Eden Park (0.88 miles)	354
Park Langley (1.86 miles)	298
Upper Elmers End (0.62 miles)	262
Beckenham (1.75 miles)	257
Spring Park (1.39 miles)	129

Where are the most violent places near Monks Orchard?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Norwood	417
Park Langley	214
Anerley	167
Addiscombe	151
Shirley	126
Eden Park	105
Monks Orchard	100
Upper Elmers End	97
Spring Park	71
Beckenham	43

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

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 Monks Orchard 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 Monks Orchard compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Monks Orchard and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Monks Orchard is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Fairfield	88
2	Selhurst	85
3	South Norwood	75
4	Bensham Manor	72
5	Woodside	67
6	Park Hill & Whitgift	63
7	Addiscombe East	54
8	Addiscombe West	52
9	Shirley South	50
10	Shirley North	44
11	Clock House	42

Which road in Monks Orchard has the highest level of crime?

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