Crime Statistics for Morden, London, Merton, 2024

Is Morden rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 316 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime85
Anti Social Behaviour56
Vehicle Crime54
Drugs26
Shoplifting21
Public Order18
Burglary15
Criminal Damage Arson15
Other Theft11
Robbery6
Theft From The Person5
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime316

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Collier’s Wood (1.75 miles)699
Benhilton (1.96 miles)518
South Wimbledon (1.24 miles)420
Mitcham (1.86 miles)371
Morden282
Beverley Beck (1.95 miles)228
Morden Park (1.75 miles)194
Bushey Mead (1.24 miles)186
Raynes Park (1.24 miles)177
Crooked Billet (1.75 miles)164

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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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Collier’s Wood174
Benhilton144
South Wimbledon131
Mitcham102
Morden85
Beverley Beck68
Bushey Mead48
Morden Park46
Raynes Park44
Crooked Billet42

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.

#WardScore
1Ravensbury65
2St Helier61
3St Helier59
4Cricket Green58
5Lavender Fields51
6Lower Morden40
7Merton Park33
8Cannon Hill32
9West Barnes32
10Dundonald31
11Hillside21

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 Canterbury Road.

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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