Crime Statistics for Forest Hill, London, Lewisham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Forest Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 534 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	130
Anti Social Behaviour	102
Vehicle Crime	65
Shoplifting	49
Other Theft	42
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Burglary	25
Public Order	24
Drugs	22
Theft From The Person	16
Robbery	12
Bicycle Theft	9
Possession Of Weapons	7
Other Crime	4
All Crime	534

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 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
Bell Green (0.88 miles)	983
Brockley (0.88 miles)	921
Ladywell (1.39 miles)	769
Lower Sydenham (1.24 miles)	621
Nunhead (1.24 miles)	573
Forest Hill	534
Honor Oak (0.62 miles)	489
Dulwich (0.88 miles)	460
Honor Oak Park (0.88 miles)	442
Dulwich Village (1.24 miles)	381

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
Bell Green	320
Brockley	255
Ladywell	234
Honor Oak Park	172
Lower Sydenham	168
Forest Hill	130
Dulwich	127
Honor Oak	104
Nunhead	103
Dulwich Village	87

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 Westwood Park.