Crime Statistics for Dulwich, London, Southwark, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dulwich in September 2024. There were a total of 442 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 Dulwich, 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	150
Anti Social Behaviour	88
Vehicle Crime	35
Burglary	32
Drugs	29
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Other Theft	24
Public Order	19
Shoplifting	13
Robbery	8
Theft From The Person	8
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	442

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 Dulwich. 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 Dulwich

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brockley (1.75 miles)	1084
Honor Oak Park (1.75 miles)	941
Lower Sydenham (0.88 miles)	619
Penge (1.24 miles)	610
Bell Green (1.24 miles)	589
Knight’s Hill (1.39 miles)	513
Forest Hill (0.88 miles)	450
Dulwich	442
Honor Oak (1.39 miles)	404
Dulwich Village (0.88 miles)	347

Where are the most violent places near Dulwich?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brockley	608
Honor Oak Park	273
Bell Green	174
Forest Hill	173
Penge	171
Lower Sydenham	162
Dulwich	150
Honor Oak	117
Knight’s Hill	109
Dulwich Village	69

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

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 Dulwich 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 Dulwich compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dulwich and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Dulwich is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Gipsy Hill	78
2	Crystal Palace	76
3	Thurlow Park	75
4	Sydenham	70
5	Knight's Hill	69
6	Perry Vale	68
7	Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood	67
8	Dulwich Wood	66
9	Dulwich Village	66
10	Forest Hill	60
11	Dulwich Hill	53

Which road in Dulwich has the highest level of crime?

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