Crime Statistics for Rotherhithe, London, Southwark, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rotherhithe in August 2024. There were a total of 716 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	265
Violent Crime	149
Theft From The Person	65
Public Order	51
Burglary	40
Vehicle Crime	31
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Other Theft	25
Robbery	23
Drugs	16
Shoplifting	11
Other Crime	6
Bicycle Theft	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	716

Map of street level crime incidents in August 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)	2158
Camberwell (1.75 miles)	1655
Wapping (0.88 miles)	1448
Ratcliff (0.62 miles)	1422
Poplar (1.39 miles)	1393
Shadwell (0.62 miles)	1258
Rotherhithe	716
Millwall (1.24 miles)	707
Evelyn (1.17 miles)	678
Isle of Dogs (1.39 miles)	606

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
Poplar	382
Ratcliff	338
Bermondsey	329
Shadwell	309
Isle of Dogs	302
Camberwell	301
Evelyn	272
Wapping	242
Millwall	190
Rotherhithe	149

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 this marker.