Crime Statistics for Camberwell, London, Southwark, 2025

Is Camberwell rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1237 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 Camberwell, 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	328
Anti Social Behaviour	242
Shoplifting	97
Theft From The Person	96
Vehicle Crime	82
Other Theft	80
Drugs	70
Criminal Damage Arson	58
Robbery	49
Public Order	49
Burglary	49
Bicycle Theft	25
Other Crime	7
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	1237

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bermondsey (1.24 miles)	3137
The Borough (1.39 miles)	1985
Walworth (0.88 miles)	1910
Newington (1.39 miles)	1269
Camberwell	1237
Brixton (1.75 miles)	1112
Peckham (0.88 miles)	919
Rotherhithe (1.75 miles)	795
Hatcham (1.39 miles)	752
New Cross Gate (1.39 miles)	555

Where are the most violent places near Camberwell?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bermondsey	610
Walworth	602
Camberwell	328
The Borough	327
Newington	327
Brixton	271
New Cross Gate	267
Peckham	212
Rotherhithe	203
Hatcham	186

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

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 Camberwell 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 Camberwell compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Camberwell and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Camberwell is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Faraday	84
2	Rye Lane	82
3	Camberwell Green	79
4	Old Kent Road	78
5	Vassall	77
6	Oval	75
7	St Giles	74
8	Peckham	73
9	Herne Hill	67
10	Goose Green	58
11	Champion Hill	47

Which road in Camberwell has the highest level of crime?

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