Crime Statistics for Shirley, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shirley in October 2024. There were a total of 459 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 Shirley, 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	126
Anti Social Behaviour	96
Vehicle Crime	61
Public Order	32
Shoplifting	32
Criminal Damage Arson	30
Drugs	20
Other Theft	18
Burglary	10
Other Crime	10
Robbery	10
Possession Of Weapons	6
Theft From The Person	6
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	459

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Borad Green (1.86 miles)	2205
South Norwood (1.76 miles)	1251
Addiscombe (0.62 miles)	603
Shirley	425
Monks Orchard (0.62 miles)	357
Eden Park (1.39 miles)	354
Park Langley (1.96 miles)	298
Upper Elmers End (0.88 miles)	262
Addington (1.75 miles)	137
Spring Park (0.88 miles)	129

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Borad Green	665
South Norwood	417
Park Langley	214
Addiscombe	151
Shirley	126
Eden Park	105
Monks Orchard	100
Upper Elmers End	97
Spring Park	71
Addington	55

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Fairfield	88
2	Selhurst	85
3	Bensham Manor	72
4	Woodside	67
5	Park Hill & Whitgift	63
6	Addiscombe East	54
7	South Croydon	53
8	Addiscombe West	52
9	Shirley South	50
10	Selsdon & Addington Village	47
11	Shirley North	44

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.