Crime Statistics for Ladywell, London, Lewisham, 2024

Is Ladywell rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 769 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 Ladywell, 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	234
Anti Social Behaviour	132
Other Theft	75
Vehicle Crime	50
Shoplifting	50
Drugs	48
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Public Order	43
Burglary	26
Robbery	23
Theft From The Person	22
Bicycle Theft	7
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	769

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 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
Hither Green (1.25 miles)	1181
St Johns (1.24 miles)	1115
Bell Green (1.39 miles)	983
Brockley (0.62 miles)	921
Catford (0.88 miles)	779
Ladywell	769
Nunhead (1.39 miles)	573
Forest Hill (1.39 miles)	534
Honor Oak (1.24 miles)	489
Honor Oak Park (0.62 miles)	442

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
Hither Green	466
Catford	327
Bell Green	320
St Johns	267
Brockley	255
Ladywell	234
Honor Oak Park	172
Forest Hill	130
Honor Oak	104
Nunhead	103

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 Renshaw Close.