Crime Statistics for Russell Hill, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Russell Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 154 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 Russell Hill, 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	45
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Shoplifting	18
Drugs	14
Public Order	9
Other Theft	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Robbery	8
Burglary	6
Theft From The Person	5
Other Crime	2
All Crime	154

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 Russell Hill. 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 Russell Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wallington (1.96 miles)	707
Bandonhill (1.96 miles)	364
South Beddington (1.39 miles)	295
Roundshaw (1.24 miles)	269
South Croydon (1.75 miles)	213
Carshalton on the Hill (1.75 miles)	202
Sanderstead (1.86 miles)	154
Russell Hill	154
Kenley (1.76 miles)	84
Little Woodcote (1.24 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Russell Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Wallington	165
South Croydon	136
Bandonhill	90
South Beddington	78
Roundshaw	70
Carshalton on the Hill	59
Russell Hill	45
Sanderstead	41
Kenley	24
Little Woodcote	8

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

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 Russell Hill 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 Russell Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Waddon	68
2	Beddington South	55
3	Chipstead, Kingswood & Woodmansterne	53
4	Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown	43
5	Coulsdon Town	39
6	Purley & Woodcote	38
7	Wallington South	38
8	Old Coulsdon	37
9	Sanderstead	31
10	Carshalton South and Clockhouse	28
11	Kenley	27

Which road in Russell Hill has the highest level of crime?

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