Crime Statistics for Kennington, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kennington in October 2024. There were a total of 1729 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 Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	461
Violent Crime	330
Theft From The Person	224
Other Theft	135
Shoplifting	100
Robbery	86
Burglary	81
Public Order	76
Criminal Damage Arson	61
Vehicle Crime	60
Drugs	54
Bicycle Theft	41
Other Crime	15
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	1729

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 Kennington. 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 Kennington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
The Borough (1.75 miles)	5332
South Lambeth (0.62 miles)	1938
Lambeth (0.62 miles)	1790
Pimlico (0.88 miles)	1770
Kennington	1729
Stockwell (1.24 miles)	1705
Brixton (1.39 miles)	1620
Clapham (1.39 miles)	1579
Battersea (1.39 miles)	1134
Walworth (1.39 miles)	1052

Where are the most violent places near Kennington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
The Borough	710
Walworth	374
South Lambeth	350
Lambeth	341
Clapham	337
Kennington	330
Brixton	306
Stockwell	295
Pimlico	286
Battersea	206

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

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 Kennington 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 Kennington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ferndale	84
2	Larkhall	80
3	Camberwell Green	79
4	Clapham Town	78
5	Vassall	77
6	Oval	75
7	Stockwell	64
8	Queenstown	60
9	Prince's	59
10	Churchill	46
11	Tachbrook	46

Which road in Kennington has the highest level of crime?

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