Crime Statistics for New Cross Gate, London, Southwark, 2025

Is New Cross Gate rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 967 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 New Cross Gate, 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	267
Anti Social Behaviour	140
Other Theft	97
Shoplifting	75
Theft From The Person	74
Criminal Damage Arson	64
Vehicle Crime	61
Public Order	54
Drugs	53
Robbery	36
Burglary	17
Other Crime	13
Bicycle Theft	12
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	967

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 New Cross Gate. 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 New Cross Gate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Camberwell (1.39 miles)	1237
Brockley (1.39 miles)	952
St Johns (1.24 miles)	930
Peckham (0.62 miles)	919
Hatcham	752
New Cross (0.62 miles)	621
Telegraph Hill (0.56 miles)	597
New Cross Gate	555
Honor Oak (1.24 miles)	516
Nunhead (0.62 miles)	477

Where are the most violent places near New Cross Gate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brockley	566
Camberwell	328
New Cross Gate	267
Peckham	212
St Johns	207
Hatcham	186
New Cross	175
Telegraph Hill	172
Honor Oak	163
Nunhead	123

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in New Cross Gate?

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 New Cross Gate 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 New Cross Gate compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rye Lane	82
2	New Cross	82
3	Nunhead & Queen's Road	77
4	St Giles	74
5	Peckham	73
6	Evelyn	64
7	Goose Green	58
8	Telegraph Hill	57
9	Peckham Rye	55
10	Dulwich Hill	53
11	Champion Hill	47

Which road in New Cross Gate has the highest level of crime?

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