Crime Statistics for Penge, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Penge in October 2024. There were a total of 608 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 Penge, 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 Crime157
Anti Social Behaviour120
Vehicle Crime66
Shoplifting50
Other Theft40
Burglary34
Criminal Damage Arson34
Public Order30
Drugs26
Robbery17
Theft From The Person13
Bicycle Theft11
Other Crime8
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime608

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 Penge. 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 Penge

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Norwood (1.39 miles)1251
Bell Green (1.75 miles)983
Lower Sydenham (0.88 miles)621
Penge608
Anerley (0.62 miles)586
Norwood New Town (1.24 miles)488
New Beckenham (1.24 miles)475
Dulwich (1.24 miles)460
Bellingham (1.96 miles)448
Eden Park (1.75 miles)354

31.57%
of Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Penge?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Norwood417
Bell Green320
Lower Sydenham168
Anerley167
Penge157
Norwood New Town144
Bellingham132
Dulwich127
New Beckenham115
Eden Park105

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

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 Penge 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 Penge compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Penge and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Penge is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Gipsy Hill78
2Crystal Palace76
3South Norwood75
4Thornton Heath74
5Penge and Cator72
6Bensham Manor72
7Knight's Hill69
8Norbury Park69
9Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood67
10Woodside67
11Dulwich Wood66

Which road in Penge has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Penge 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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