Crime Statistics for Streatham Vale, London, Merton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Streatham Vale in August 2024. There were a total of 932 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	302
Violent Crime	258
Public Order	78
Vehicle Crime	62
Criminal Damage Arson	44
Shoplifting	44
Other Theft	40
Robbery	34
Burglary	26
Drugs	18
Theft From The Person	12
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	932

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Streatham Vale. 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 Streatham Vale

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Streatham Vale	914
Collier’s Wood (1.24 miles)	669
Balham (1.96 miles)	597
Streatham Hill (1.96 miles)	527
Streatham Park (0.62 miles)	519
Furzedown (0.62 miles)	513
Streatham (0.88 miles)	499
Tooting Graveney (1.39 miles)	422
Norwood New Town (1.86 miles)	381
Mitcham (1.39 miles)	285

Where are the most violent places near Streatham Vale?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tooting Graveney	273
Streatham Vale	258
Collier’s Wood	182
Furzedown	162
Balham	142
Streatham Hill	140
Streatham	135
Streatham Park	134
Norwood New Town	119
Mitcham	92

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

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 Streatham Vale 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 Streatham Vale compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Streatham Vale and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Streatham Vale is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Figge's Marsh	79
2	Norbury & Pollards Hill	72
3	Graveney	64
4	Longthornton	64
5	Pollards Hill	63
6	Cricket Green	58
7	Streatham South	58
8	Graveney	57
9	Colliers Wood	57
10	Lavender Fields	51
11	Furzedown	48

Which road in Streatham Vale has the highest level of crime?

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