Crime Statistics for Furzedown, London, Merton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Furzedown in October 2024. There were a total of 1045 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime266
Anti Social Behaviour177
Shoplifting128
Vehicle Crime112
Other Theft97
Public Order66
Drugs45
Burglary40
Criminal Damage Arson39
Robbery33
Theft From The Person18
Bicycle Theft16
Other Crime8
All Crime1045

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Tooting Graveney (0.88 miles)1125
Furzedown885
Collier’s Wood (0.62 miles)695
Streatham Park (0.88 miles)639
Balham (1.86 miles)600
Streatham (1.39 miles)552
Streatham Vale (0.62 miles)461
South Wimbledon (1.86 miles)420
Mitcham (1.24 miles)371
Morden (2.24 miles)282

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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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Tooting Graveney304
Furzedown266
Streatham Vale244
Streatham178
Streatham Park170
Collier’s Wood162
South Wimbledon131
Balham126
Mitcham102
Morden85

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.

#WardScore
1Figge's Marsh79
2Graveney64
3Longthornton64
4Pollards Hill63
5Cricket Green58
6Graveney57
7Colliers Wood57
8Lavender Fields51
9Furzedown48
10Abbey39
11Trinity36

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.

Last updated: October 2024
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