Crime Statistics for Shirley, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shirley in August 2024. There were a total of 198 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour68
Violent Crime55
Vehicle Crime16
Criminal Damage Arson14
Public Order11
Drugs11
Burglary7
Shoplifting6
Other Theft4
Robbery2
Theft From The Person2
Other Crime1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime198

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 Shirley. 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 Shirley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Borad Green (1.86 miles)1362
South Norwood (1.76 miles)643
Addiscombe (0.62 miles)605
Monks Orchard (0.62 miles)270
Upper Elmers End (0.88 miles)203
Shirley198
Park Langley (1.96 miles)182
Eden Park (1.39 miles)181
Addington (1.75 miles)151
Spring Park (0.88 miles)90

24.62%
of Shirley North residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Shirley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Borad Green329
South Norwood235
Addiscombe132
Monks Orchard123
Park Langley84
Upper Elmers End77
Addington64
Shirley55
Eden Park51
Spring Park27

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

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 Shirley 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 Shirley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shirley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Shirley have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Fairfield.

#WardScore
1Fairfield88
2Selhurst85
3Bensham Manor72
4Woodside67
5Park Hill & Whitgift63
6Addiscombe East54
7South Croydon53
8Addiscombe West52
9Shirley South50
10Selsdon & Addington Village47
11Shirley North44

Which road in Shirley has the highest level of crime?

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