Crime Statistics for Honor Oak, London, Lewisham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Honor Oak in October 2024. There were a total of 489 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Honor Oak, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime104
Vehicle Crime73
Anti Social Behaviour71
Shoplifting65
Other Theft36
Drugs30
Criminal Damage Arson30
Burglary22
Public Order16
Robbery12
Theft From The Person12
Bicycle Theft10
Possession Of Weapons5
Other Crime3
All Crime489

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 Honor Oak. 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 Honor Oak

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

LocationCrime Incidents
New Cross Gate (1.24 miles)1413
Hatcham (1.24 miles)943
Brockley (0.62 miles)921
Ladywell (1.24 miles)769
Telegraph Hill (1.36 miles)709
Nunhead (0.62 miles)573
Forest Hill (0.62 miles)534
Honor Oak489
Honor Oak Park (0.62 miles)442
Dulwich Village (1.39 miles)381

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Where are the most violent places near Honor Oak?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
New Cross Gate277
Brockley255
Ladywell234
Honor Oak Park172
Telegraph Hill166
Hatcham158
Forest Hill130
Honor Oak104
Nunhead103
Dulwich Village87

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

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 Honor Oak 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 Honor Oak compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Honor Oak and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Honor Oak is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Thurlow Park75
2St Giles74
3Sydenham70
4Perry Vale68
5Dulwich Village66
6Forest Hill60
7Goose Green58
8Peckham Rye55
9Dulwich Hill53
10Champion Hill47
11Crofton Park46

Which road in Honor Oak has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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