Crime Statistics for South Woodford, London, Redbridge, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Woodford in October 2024. There were a total of 418 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in South Woodford, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	98
Vehicle Crime	81
Other Theft	41
Anti Social Behaviour	37
Shoplifting	36
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Burglary	26
Drugs	25
Public Order	14
Robbery	12
Theft From The Person	7
Other Crime	7
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	418

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 Woodford. 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 Woodford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walthamstow (1.96 miles)	2341
Hale End (1.39 miles)	1218
Chingford Hatch (1.75 miles)	781
Highams Park (1.96 miles)	655
Cranbrook (2.24 miles)	630
Aldersbrook (1.86 miles)	582
Wanstead (1.24 miles)	433
Buckhurst Hill (1.96 miles)	313
Friday Hill (1.96 miles)	279
South Woodford	258

Where are the most violent places near South Woodford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walthamstow	423
Hale End	239
Cranbrook	180
Chingford Hatch	153
Highams Park	118
Aldersbrook	105
South Woodford	98
Friday Hill	81
Buckhurst Hill	78
Wanstead	77

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

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 Woodford 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 Woodford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Woodford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.South Woodford is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hoe Street	76
2	Wanstead Park	74
3	Chapel End	66
4	Hale End and Highams Park	65
5	Wood Street	64
6	Wanstead Village	58
7	Bridge	57
8	Clayhall	56
9	South Woodford	54
10	Churchfields	50
11	Monkhams	47

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

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