Crime Statistics for Walworth, London, Southwark, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Walworth in October 2024. There were a total of 1052 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Walworth, 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	374
Shoplifting	287
Theft From The Person	284
Vehicle Crime	66
Robbery	24
Other Crime	17
All Crime	1052

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 Walworth. 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 Walworth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
The Borough (0.62 miles)	5332
Bermondsey (0.88 miles)	4512
Newington (0.62 miles)	2804
Wapping (1.75 miles)	2046
South Lambeth (1.75 miles)	1938
Lambeth (1.24 miles)	1790
Camberwell (0.88 miles)	1742
Kennington (1.39 miles)	1729
Walworth	1052
Peckham (1.75 miles)	893

Where are the most violent places near Walworth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bermondsey	750
The Borough	710
Newington	443
Walworth	374
Wapping	366
South Lambeth	350
Lambeth	341
Kennington	330
Camberwell	307
Peckham	242

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

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 Walworth 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 Walworth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Walworth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Walworth is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Faraday	84
2	North Walworth	83
3	Camberwell Green	79
4	Old Kent Road	78
5	Vassall	77
6	Oval	75
7	Newington	73
8	Chaucer	73
9	St George's	63
10	London Bridge & West Bermondsey	63
11	Prince's	59

Which road in Walworth has the highest level of crime?

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