Crime Statistics for South Wimbledon, London, Merton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Wimbledon in September 2024. There were a total of 508 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	114
Anti Social Behaviour	112
Violent Crime	85
Other Theft	47
Public Order	30
Vehicle Crime	29
Theft From The Person	21
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Drugs	18
Burglary	12
Robbery	10
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	508

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 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)	766
Furzedown (1.86 miles)	670
Collier’s Wood (1.24 miles)	669
South Wimbledon	508
Morden (1.24 miles)	436
Southfields (1.86 miles)	386
Raynes Park (1.75 miles)	198
Bushey Mead (1.75 miles)	198
Crooked Billet (1.24 miles)	139
Copse Hill (1.86 miles)	120

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	205
Furzedown	183
Collier’s Wood	182
Morden	116
Southfields	97
South Wimbledon	85
Raynes Park	49
Bushey Mead	49
Copse Hill	36
Crooked Billet	34

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 this marker.