Crime Statistics for Ladywell, London, Lewisham, 2025

Is Ladywell rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 2481 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	803
Anti Social Behaviour	392
Other Theft	260
Criminal Damage Arson	184
Public Order	168
Drugs	160
Vehicle Crime	152
Shoplifting	148
Burglary	96
Theft From The Person	52
Robbery	32
Other Crime	18
Possession Of Weapons	12
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	2481

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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
Ladywell	1250
Hither Green (1.25 miles)	1125
Bell Green (1.39 miles)	965
Brockley (0.62 miles)	952
St Johns (1.24 miles)	930
Honor Oak Park (0.62 miles)	814
Forest Hill (1.39 miles)	665
Honor Oak (1.24 miles)	516
Nunhead (1.39 miles)	477
Catford (0.88 miles)	465

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
Ladywell	803
Brockley	566
Hither Green	389
Catford	341
Honor Oak Park	277
Bell Green	268
Forest Hill	230
St Johns	207
Honor Oak	163
Nunhead	123

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.