Crime Statistics for South Lambeth, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Lambeth in October 2024. There were a total of 1938 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	556
Violent Crime	350
Theft From The Person	165
Other Theft	153
Shoplifting	152
Burglary	98
Public Order	93
Robbery	89
Drugs	88
Criminal Damage Arson	75
Vehicle Crime	69
Bicycle Theft	31
Other Crime	14
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	1938

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 Lambeth. 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 Lambeth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Lambeth	1938
Lambeth (1.24 miles)	1790
Pimlico (1.39 miles)	1770
Kennington (0.62 miles)	1729
Stockwell (0.62 miles)	1705
Brixton (0.88 miles)	1620
Clapham (0.88 miles)	1579
Battersea (1.24 miles)	1134
Walworth (1.75 miles)	1052
Clapham Park (1.39 miles)	847

Where are the most violent places near South Lambeth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walworth	374
South Lambeth	350
Lambeth	341
Clapham	337
Kennington	330
Brixton	306
Stockwell	295
Pimlico	286
Battersea	206
Clapham Park	145

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

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 Lambeth 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 Lambeth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Lambeth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Lambeth is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ferndale	84
2	Larkhall	80
3	Coldharbour	80
4	Clapham Town	78
5	Vassall	77
6	Brixton Hill	75
7	Oval	75
8	Tulse Hill	71
9	Clapham Common	66
10	Stockwell	64
11	Churchill	46

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

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