Crime Statistics for Rotherhithe, London, Southwark, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rotherhithe in October 2024. There were a total of 1147 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 Rotherhithe, 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	280
Anti Social Behaviour	199
Other Theft	105
Theft From The Person	96
Drugs	72
Vehicle Crime	68
Criminal Damage Arson	64
Robbery	63
Public Order	62
Burglary	49
Bicycle Theft	34
Shoplifting	30
Other Crime	20
Possession Of Weapons	5
All Crime	1147

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 Rotherhithe. 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 Rotherhithe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bermondsey (1.24 miles)	4512
Ratcliff (0.62 miles)	2302
Wapping (0.88 miles)	2046
Camberwell (1.75 miles)	1742
Poplar (1.39 miles)	1424
Shadwell (0.62 miles)	1252
Evelyn (1.17 miles)	1053
Isle of Dogs (1.39 miles)	1047
Millwall (1.24 miles)	972
Rotherhithe	930

Where are the most violent places near Rotherhithe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bermondsey	750
Ratcliff	523
Poplar	380
Wapping	366
Camberwell	307
Shadwell	286
Rotherhithe	280
Evelyn	249
Isle of Dogs	233
Millwall	209

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

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 Rotherhithe 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 Rotherhithe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rotherhithe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rotherhithe is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Faraday	84
2	Old Kent Road	78
3	Nunhead & Queen's Road	77
4	South Bermondsey	75
5	Peckham	73
6	Rotherhithe	70
7	Whitechapel	69
8	Surrey Docks	65
9	Evelyn	64
10	London Bridge & West Bermondsey	63
11	North Bermondsey	52

Which road in Rotherhithe has the highest level of crime?

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