Crime Statistics for Hatcham, London, Lewisham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hatcham in August 2024. There were a total of 1011 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 Hatcham, 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	309
Anti Social Behaviour	266
Shoplifting	74
Theft From The Person	64
Burglary	62
Public Order	54
Robbery	51
Vehicle Crime	38
Drugs	26
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Other Theft	20
Bicycle Theft	14
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	1011

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Camberwell (1.39 miles)	1535
Hatcham	942
St Johns (1.24 miles)	832
New Cross (0.62 miles)	809
Nunhead (0.62 miles)	743
Peckham (0.62 miles)	685
New Cross Gate	663
Telegraph Hill (0.56 miles)	585
Brockley (1.39 miles)	577
Honor Oak (1.24 miles)	296

Where are the most violent places near Hatcham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Camberwell	496
Hatcham	309
New Cross	274
St Johns	242
Nunhead	204
Peckham	196
New Cross Gate	190
Brockley	186
Telegraph Hill	170
Honor Oak	79

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

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 Hatcham 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 Hatcham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hatcham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hatcham is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rye Lane	82
2	New Cross	82
3	Nunhead & Queen's Road	77
4	St Giles	74
5	Peckham	73
6	Evelyn	64
7	Goose Green	58
8	Telegraph Hill	57
9	Peckham Rye	55
10	Dulwich Hill	53
11	Champion Hill	47

Which road in Hatcham has the highest level of crime?

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