Crime Statistics for Furzedown, London, Merton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Furzedown in September 2024. There were a total of 670 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 Furzedown, 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	183
Anti Social Behaviour	124
Vehicle Crime	76
Shoplifting	75
Other Theft	41
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Burglary	33
Drugs	32
Public Order	24
Theft From The Person	18
Robbery	10
Other Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	8
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	670

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Furzedown. 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 Furzedown

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tooting Graveney (0.88 miles)	766
Streatham Park (0.88 miles)	725
Furzedown	670
Collier’s Wood (0.62 miles)	669
Streatham Vale (0.62 miles)	650
Streatham (1.39 miles)	637
Balham (1.86 miles)	597
South Wimbledon (1.86 miles)	508
Morden (2.24 miles)	436
Mitcham (1.24 miles)	326

Where are the most violent places near Furzedown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tooting Graveney	205
Streatham Park	188
Streatham Vale	187
Furzedown	183
Collier’s Wood	182
Streatham	159
Balham	142
Morden	116
Mitcham	116
South Wimbledon	85

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

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 Furzedown 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 Furzedown compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Furzedown and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Furzedown is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Figge's Marsh	79
2	Graveney	64
3	Longthornton	64
4	Pollards Hill	63
5	Cricket Green	58
6	Graveney	57
7	Colliers Wood	57
8	Lavender Fields	51
9	Furzedown	48
10	Abbey	39
11	Trinity	36

Which road in Furzedown has the highest level of crime?

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