Crime Statistics for Wandle Park, London, Croydon, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wandle Park in October 2024. There were a total of 1259 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Wandle Park, 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	302
Shoplifting	272
Anti Social Behaviour	172
Vehicle Crime	92
Other Theft	82
Public Order	80
Theft From The Person	71
Robbery	63
Criminal Damage Arson	57
Burglary	37
Drugs	12
Possession Of Weapons	10
Other Crime	7
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	1259

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 Wandle Park. 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 Wandle Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Borad Green (0.88 miles)	2205
Wandle Park	1159
Beddington (0.62 miles)	993
Wallington (1.39 miles)	707
Addiscombe (1.96 miles)	603
Bandonhill (1.39 miles)	364
Beddington Corner (1.96 miles)	303
South Beddington (1.75 miles)	295
Roundshaw (1.39 miles)	269
South Croydon (1.39 miles)	213

Where are the most violent places near Wandle Park?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Wandle Park 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
Addiscombe	151
South Croydon	136
Bandonhill	90
Beddington Corner	83
South Beddington	78
Roundshaw	70

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

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 Wandle Park 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 Wandle Park compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wandle Park and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Wandle Park is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Fairfield	88
2	Selhurst	85
3	Broad Green	81
4	West Thornton	79
5	Waddon	68
6	Park Hill & Whitgift	63
7	Beddington South	55
8	South Croydon	53
9	Addiscombe West	52
10	Beddington North	45
11	Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown	43

Which road in Wandle Park has the highest level of crime?

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