Crime Statistics for Morden, London, Merton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Morden in September 2024. There were a total of 530 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 Morden, 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	116
Anti Social Behaviour	114
Vehicle Crime	88
Other Theft	40
Public Order	34
Burglary	34
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Drugs	22
Shoplifting	22
Theft From The Person	16
Robbery	10
Bicycle Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	530

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 Morden. 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 Morden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Collier’s Wood (1.75 miles)	669
South Wimbledon (1.24 miles)	508
Benhilton (1.96 miles)	505
Morden	436
Mitcham (1.86 miles)	326
Morden Park (1.75 miles)	285
Beverley Beck (1.95 miles)	208
Raynes Park (1.24 miles)	198
Bushey Mead (1.24 miles)	198
Crooked Billet (1.75 miles)	139

Where are the most violent places near Morden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Collier’s Wood	182
Benhilton	135
Morden	116
Mitcham	116
Morden Park	95
South Wimbledon	85
Beverley Beck	53
Raynes Park	49
Bushey Mead	49
Crooked Billet	34

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

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 Morden 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 Morden compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ravensbury	65
2	St Helier	61
3	St Helier	59
4	Cricket Green	58
5	Lavender Fields	51
6	Lower Morden	40
7	Merton Park	33
8	Cannon Hill	32
9	West Barnes	32
10	Dundonald	31
11	Hillside	21

Which road in Morden has the highest level of crime?

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