Crime Statistics for South Croydon, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Croydon in October 2024. There were a total of 394 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 South Croydon, 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	136
Anti Social Behaviour	59
Drugs	55
Vehicle Crime	35
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Public Order	19
Other Theft	17
Shoplifting	14
Burglary	12
Robbery	10
Theft From The Person	8
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	394

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 South Croydon. 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 South Croydon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Borad Green (1.86 miles)	2205
Wandle Park (1.39 miles)	1159
Beddington (1.75 miles)	993
Wallington (1.96 miles)	707
Bandonhill (1.96 miles)	364
South Beddington (1.86 miles)	295
Roundshaw (1.24 miles)	269
South Croydon	213
Sanderstead (1.39 miles)	154
Russell Hill (1.75 miles)	154

Where are the most violent places near South Croydon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Borad Green	665
Beddington	385
Wandle Park	302
Wallington	165
South Croydon	136
Bandonhill	90
South Beddington	78
Roundshaw	70
Russell Hill	45
Sanderstead	41

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

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 South Croydon 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 South Croydon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Fairfield	88
2	Broad Green	81
3	Waddon	68
4	Park Hill & Whitgift	63
5	Beddington South	55
6	South Croydon	53
7	Addiscombe West	52
8	Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown	43
9	Coulsdon Town	39
10	Purley & Woodcote	38
11	Sanderstead	31

Which road in South Croydon has the highest level of crime?

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