Crime Statistics for Mortlake, London, Richmond Upon Thames, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Mortlake in October 2024. There were a total of 429 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 Mortlake, 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	114
Anti Social Behaviour	110
Vehicle Crime	61
Other Theft	28
Drugs	24
Shoplifting	22
Burglary	18
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Theft From The Person	12
Public Order	10
Bicycle Theft	8
Other Crime	4
Robbery	4
All Crime	429

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 Mortlake. 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 Mortlake

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chiswick (1.86 miles)	927
Acton Green (2.48 miles)	744
Thames (1.8 miles)	682
North Sheen (0.88 miles)	680
Kew (1.39 miles)	635
Fulham (2.56 miles)	494
Mortlake	414
Brentford (1.75 miles)	402
St Margarets (1.96 miles)	375
Barnes (1.39 miles)	156

Where are the most violent places near Mortlake?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
North Sheen	279
Thames	162
Chiswick	153
Kew	151
Acton Green	134
Mortlake	114
Fulham	109
Brentford	82
St Margarets	78
Barnes	57

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

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 Mortlake 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 Mortlake compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Mortlake and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Mortlake have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Chiswick Riverside.

#	Ward	Score
1	Chiswick Riverside	71
2	Roehampton and Putney Heath	65
3	North Richmond	58
4	Kew	56
5	Thamesfield	52
6	Mortlake and Barnes Common	51
7	South Richmond	49
8	West Putney	44
9	Twickenham Riverside	44
10	Barnes	43
11	East Sheen	38

Which road in Mortlake has the highest level of crime?

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