Crime Statistics for Knight’s Hill, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Knight’s Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 520 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 Knight’s Hill, 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	122
Anti Social Behaviour	119
Vehicle Crime	58
Other Theft	39
Burglary	39
Robbery	31
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Shoplifting	24
Public Order	19
Drugs	16
Theft From The Person	12
Bicycle Theft	9
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	520

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 Knight’s Hill. 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 Knight’s Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stockwell (1.75 miles)	1705
Brixton (1.39 miles)	1620
Streatham Hill (1.24 miles)	729
Tulse Hill (0.62 miles)	695
Herne Hill (0.62 miles)	653
Streatham (1.75 miles)	552
Forest Hill (1.86 miles)	534
Knight’s Hill	520
Dulwich (1.39 miles)	460
Dulwich Village (0.62 miles)	381

Where are the most violent places near Knight’s Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brixton	306
Stockwell	295
Tulse Hill	215
Streatham	178
Streatham Hill	164
Herne Hill	134
Forest Hill	130
Dulwich	127
Knight’s Hill	122
Dulwich Village	87

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Knight’s Hill?

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 Knight’s Hill 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 Knight’s Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Knight’s Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Knight’s Hill is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Coldharbour	80
2	Thurlow Park	75
3	Brixton Hill	75
4	St Leonard's	74
5	Tulse Hill	71
6	Streatham Hill	69
7	Knight's Hill	69
8	Dulwich Wood	66
9	Dulwich Village	66
10	Streatham Wells	56
11	Dulwich Hill	53

Which road in Knight’s Hill has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Knight’s Hill with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Wavertree Road.