Crime Statistics for Bushey Mead, London, Merton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bushey Mead in October 2024. There were a total of 304 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 Bushey Mead, 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	76
Anti Social Behaviour	76
Shoplifting	34
Public Order	26
Vehicle Crime	24
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Burglary	14
Drugs	12
Other Theft	6
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Robbery	4
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	304

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 Bushey Mead. 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 Bushey Mead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Wimbledon (1.75 miles)	420
Bushey Mead	300
Morden (1.24 miles)	282
Crooked Billet (1.24 miles)	205
New Malden (1.24 miles)	204
Beverley Beck (0.75 miles)	197
Morden Park (1.24 miles)	194
Raynes Park	177
Motspur Park (1.39 miles)	158
Copse Hill (1.39 miles)	111

Where are the most violent places near Bushey Mead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Wimbledon	131
Morden	85
Bushey Mead	76
New Malden	60
Motspur Park	48
Beverley Beck	47
Morden Park	46
Crooked Billet	45
Raynes Park	44
Copse Hill	19

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

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 Bushey Mead 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 Bushey Mead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bushey Mead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bushey Mead is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Helier	61
2	Beverley	51
3	Lower Morden	40
4	St James	36
5	Raynes Park	36
6	Worcester Park	34
7	Merton Park	33
8	Cannon Hill	32
9	West Barnes	32
10	Old Malden	26
11	Hillside	21

Which road in Bushey Mead has the highest level of crime?

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