Crime Statistics for South Wimbledon, London, Merton, 2024

Is South Wimbledon rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 645 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 South Wimbledon, 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 Crime184
Anti Social Behaviour120
Shoplifting67
Public Order56
Other Theft49
Vehicle Crime44
Theft From The Person30
Burglary29
Robbery24
Criminal Damage Arson20
Drugs14
Other Crime6
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime645

Map of street level crime incidents in December 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Collier’s Wood (1.24 miles)1135
Tooting Graveney (1.39 miles)958
Furzedown (1.86 miles)644
South Wimbledon623
Southfields (1.86 miles)332
Morden (1.24 miles)243
Bushey Mead (1.75 miles)165
Raynes Park (1.75 miles)157
Crooked Billet (1.24 miles)153
Copse Hill (1.86 miles)147

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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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Collier’s Wood304
Tooting Graveney282
South Wimbledon184
Furzedown179
Southfields102
Morden83
Copse Hill58
Bushey Mead55
Crooked Billet45
Raynes Park44

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.

#WardScore
1Tooting71
2St Helier61
3Cricket Green58
4Lavender Fields51
5Abbey39
6Trinity36
7Merton Park33
8Cannon Hill32
9Village32
10Dundonald31
11Hillside21

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.

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

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