Crime Statistics for South Woodford, London, Redbridge, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Woodford in September 2024. There were a total of 432 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	79
Violent Crime	75
Vehicle Crime	74
Anti Social Behaviour	47
Other Theft	43
Burglary	26
Public Order	25
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Drugs	11
Robbery	11
Other Crime	9
Theft From The Person	7
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	432

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 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)	2228
Highams Park (1.96 miles)	755
Aldersbrook (1.86 miles)	564
Hale End (1.39 miles)	522
Friday Hill (1.96 miles)	426
Wanstead (1.24 miles)	380
Chingford Hatch (1.75 miles)	367
Cranbrook (2.24 miles)	356
South Woodford	270
Buckhurst Hill (1.96 miles)	150

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	816
Friday Hill	252
Cranbrook	183
Highams Park	168
Wanstead	123
Aldersbrook	113
Hale End	101
Chingford Hatch	80
South Woodford	75
Buckhurst Hill	49

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 Marlborough Business Centre.