Crime Statistics for Forest Hill, London, Lewisham, 2025

Is Forest Hill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 754 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 Forest 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	230
Anti Social Behaviour	166
Vehicle Crime	68
Other Theft	51
Shoplifting	49
Drugs	48
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Burglary	34
Public Order	20
Robbery	12
Theft From The Person	11
Other Crime	11
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	754

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Forest 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 Forest Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ladywell (1.39 miles)	1250
Bell Green (0.88 miles)	965
Brockley (0.88 miles)	952
Lower Sydenham (1.24 miles)	821
Honor Oak Park (0.88 miles)	814
Dulwich (0.88 miles)	677
Forest Hill	665
Honor Oak (0.62 miles)	516
Nunhead (1.24 miles)	477
Dulwich Village (1.24 miles)	326

Where are the most violent places near Forest Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ladywell	803
Brockley	566
Honor Oak Park	277
Bell Green	268
Lower Sydenham	263
Dulwich	252
Forest Hill	230
Honor Oak	163
Dulwich Village	144
Nunhead	123

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Forest 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 Forest 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 Forest Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Crystal Palace	76
2	Thurlow Park	75
3	Penge and Cator	72
4	Sydenham	70
5	Perry Vale	68
6	Dulwich Wood	66
7	Dulwich Village	66
8	Forest Hill	60
9	Peckham Rye	55
10	Dulwich Hill	53
11	Crofton Park	46

Which road in Forest Hill has the highest level of crime?

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