Crime Statistics for Norwood New Town, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Norwood New Town in August 2024. There were a total of 381 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 Norwood New Town, 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 Crime119
Anti Social Behaviour112
Public Order28
Vehicle Crime24
Drugs19
Shoplifting18
Criminal Damage Arson17
Other Theft14
Robbery13
Burglary9
Other Crime3
Theft From The Person3
Possession Of Weapons1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime381

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Streatham Vale (1.86 miles)914
South Norwood (1.39 miles)643
Anerley (1.39 miles)570
Streatham Park (1.96 miles)519
Streatham (1.39 miles)499
Penge (1.24 miles)463
Lower Sydenham (1.96 miles)457
Dulwich (1.75 miles)429
Norwood New Town381
Knight’s Hill (1.86 miles)360

41.83%
of Norbury Park residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Norwood New Town?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Streatham Vale258
South Norwood235
Anerley164
Streatham135
Streatham Park134
Penge131
Dulwich130
Lower Sydenham125
Norwood New Town119
Knight’s Hill97

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Norwood New Town?

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 Norwood New Town 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 Norwood New Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Norwood New Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Norwood New Town is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Gipsy Hill78
2Crystal Palace76
3South Norwood75
4Thornton Heath74
5Norbury & Pollards Hill72
6Bensham Manor72
7Knight's Hill69
8Norbury Park69
9Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood67
10Dulwich Wood66
11Streatham South58

Which road in Norwood New Town has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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