Crime Statistics for New Cross, London, Lewisham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Cross in August 2024. There were a total of 908 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 New Cross, 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	274
Anti Social Behaviour	232
Theft From The Person	65
Public Order	55
Drugs	50
Criminal Damage Arson	47
Other Theft	39
Robbery	39
Burglary	36
Vehicle Crime	31
Shoplifting	24
Possession Of Weapons	8
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	908

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 New Cross. 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 New Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hatcham (0.62 miles)	942
St Johns (0.62 miles)	832
New Cross	809
Nunhead (0.88 miles)	743
Peckham (1.24 miles)	685
Evelyn (1.3 miles)	678
New Cross Gate (0.62 miles)	663
Telegraph Hill (0.06 miles)	585
Brockley (1.24 miles)	577
Honor Oak Park (1.24 miles)	374

Where are the most violent places near New Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hatcham	309
New Cross	274
Evelyn	272
St Johns	242
Nunhead	204
Peckham	196
New Cross Gate	190
Brockley	186
Telegraph Hill	170
Honor Oak Park	99

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

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 New Cross 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 New Cross compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Cross and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Cross is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rye Lane	82
2	New Cross	82
3	Nunhead & Queen's Road	77
4	Brockley	74
5	Peckham	73
6	Greenwich West	70
7	Evelyn	64
8	Blackheath	63
9	Ladywell	58
10	Telegraph Hill	57
11	Peckham Rye	55

Which road in New Cross has the highest level of crime?

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