Crime Statistics for Ladywell, London, Lewisham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ladywell in August 2024. There were a total of 605 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	192
Violent Crime	170
Public Order	49
Other Theft	27
Burglary	27
Theft From The Person	26
Shoplifting	25
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Drugs	22
Vehicle Crime	20
Robbery	13
Bicycle Theft	5
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	605

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 Ladywell. 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 Ladywell

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Johns (1.24 miles)	832
Nunhead (1.39 miles)	743
Hither Green (1.25 miles)	689
Catford (0.88 miles)	664
Ladywell	605
Bell Green (1.39 miles)	589
Brockley (0.62 miles)	577
Honor Oak Park (0.62 miles)	374
Honor Oak (1.24 miles)	296
Forest Hill (1.39 miles)	294

Where are the most violent places near Ladywell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Johns	242
Hither Green	228
Nunhead	204
Catford	204
Brockley	186
Bell Green	174
Ladywell	170
Honor Oak Park	99
Honor Oak	79
Forest Hill	75

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

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 Ladywell 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 Ladywell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ladywell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Ladywell have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Crofton Park.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rushey Green	77
2	Lewisham Central	75
3	Brockley	74
4	Sydenham	70
5	Perry Vale	68
6	Whitefoot	66
7	Forest Hill	60
8	Ladywell	58
9	Peckham Rye	55
10	Catford South	52
11	Crofton Park	46

Which road in Ladywell has the highest level of crime?

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