Crime Statistics for South Wimbledon, London, Merton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Wimbledon in October 2024. There were a total of 792 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	176
Anti Social Behaviour	133
Violent Crime	131
Vehicle Crime	82
Public Order	68
Other Theft	61
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Theft From The Person	27
Burglary	26
Robbery	19
Drugs	18
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	792

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 South Wimbledon. 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 South Wimbledon

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tooting Graveney (1.39 miles)	1125
Furzedown (1.86 miles)	885
Collier’s Wood (1.24 miles)	695
South Wimbledon	420
Southfields (1.86 miles)	393
Bushey Mead (1.75 miles)	300
Morden (1.24 miles)	282
Crooked Billet (1.24 miles)	205
Raynes Park (1.75 miles)	177
Copse Hill (1.86 miles)	111

Where are the most violent places near South Wimbledon?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tooting Graveney	304
Furzedown	266
Collier’s Wood	162
South Wimbledon	131
Southfields	130
Morden	85
Bushey Mead	76
Crooked Billet	45
Raynes Park	44
Copse Hill	19

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

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 South Wimbledon 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 South Wimbledon compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tooting	71
2	St Helier	61
3	Cricket Green	58
4	Lavender Fields	51
5	Abbey	39
6	Trinity	36
7	Merton Park	33
8	Cannon Hill	32
9	Village	32
10	Dundonald	31
11	Hillside	21

Which road in South Wimbledon has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in South Wimbledon with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Merton Hall Road.