Crime Statistics for Rotherhithe, London, Southwark, 2025

Is Rotherhithe rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 795 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime203
Anti Social Behaviour139
Other Theft79
Theft From The Person73
Vehicle Crime47
Shoplifting43
Burglary40
Drugs39
Criminal Damage Arson37
Robbery35
Public Order31
Bicycle Theft20
Other Crime7
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime795

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Bermondsey (1.24 miles)1823
Wapping (0.88 miles)1800
Poplar (1.39 miles)1624
Camberwell (1.75 miles)1350
Shadwell (0.62 miles)933
Ratcliff (0.62 miles)933
Evelyn (1.17 miles)828
Rotherhithe795
Isle of Dogs (1.39 miles)794
Millwall (1.24 miles)777

46.88%
of Rotherhithe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Poplar430
Wapping367
Bermondsey322
Camberwell274
Shadwell210
Ratcliff210
Rotherhithe203
Evelyn189
Isle of Dogs188
Millwall186

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.

#WardScore
1Faraday84
2Old Kent Road78
3Nunhead & Queen's Road77
4South Bermondsey75
5Peckham73
6Rotherhithe70
7Whitechapel69
8Surrey Docks65
9Evelyn64
10London Bridge & West Bermondsey63
11North Bermondsey52

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.

Last updated: January 2025
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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