Crime Statistics for The Borough, London, Southwark, 2025

Is The Borough rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1985 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Theft From The Person, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Theft From The Person	455
Violent Crime	327
Anti Social Behaviour	306
Other Theft	213
Shoplifting	110
Burglary	94
Public Order	94
Criminal Damage Arson	91
Drugs	91
Robbery	88
Vehicle Crime	56
Bicycle Theft	36
Other Crime	16
Possession Of Weapons	8
All Crime	1985

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 The Borough. 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 The Borough

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

Location	Crime Incidents
London (1.39 miles)	7107
Strand (1.39 miles)	4648
Bermondsey (0.62 miles)	3137
Spitalfields (1.39 miles)	3116
Wapping (1.39 miles)	2186
The Borough	1985
Walworth (0.62 miles)	1910
Lambeth (1.39 miles)	1347
Newington	1269
Camberwell (1.39 miles)	1237

Where are the most violent places near The Borough?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
London	748
Bermondsey	610
Walworth	602
Spitalfields	585
Strand	559
Wapping	490
Camberwell	328
The Borough	327
Newington	327
Lambeth	264

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

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 The Borough 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 The Borough compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Faraday	84
2	North Walworth	83
3	Camberwell Green	79
4	Oval	75
5	Newington	73
6	Chaucer	73
7	St George's	63
8	London Bridge & West Bermondsey	63
9	Prince's	59
10	Bishop's	55
11	Borough & Bankside	37

Which road in The Borough has the highest level of crime?

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