Crime Statistics for Streatham, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Streatham in October 2024. There were a total of 691 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 Streatham, 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	178
Shoplifting	123
Anti Social Behaviour	84
Vehicle Crime	55
Other Theft	52
Public Order	40
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Robbery	33
Burglary	33
Drugs	27
Theft From The Person	16
Bicycle Theft	8
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	691

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 Streatham. 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 Streatham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tooting Graveney (1.86 miles)	1125
Furzedown (1.39 miles)	885
Streatham Hill (1.24 miles)	729
Tulse Hill (1.39 miles)	695
Streatham Park (0.62 miles)	639
Balham (1.75 miles)	600
Streatham	552
Knight’s Hill (1.75 miles)	520
Norwood New Town (1.39 miles)	488
Streatham Vale (0.88 miles)	461

Where are the most violent places near Streatham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tooting Graveney	304
Furzedown	266
Streatham Vale	244
Tulse Hill	215
Streatham	178
Streatham Park	170
Streatham Hill	164
Norwood New Town	144
Balham	126
Knight’s Hill	122

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

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 Streatham 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 Streatham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Figge's Marsh	79
2	St Leonard's	74
3	Norbury & Pollards Hill	72
4	Knight's Hill	69
5	Norbury Park	69
6	Longthornton	64
7	Pollards Hill	63
8	Streatham South	58
9	Graveney	57
10	Streatham Wells	56
11	Furzedown	48

Which road in Streatham has the highest level of crime?

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