Crime Statistics for Caterham, Tandridge, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Caterham in October 2024. There were a total of 119 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 Caterham, 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	50
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Shoplifting	12
Public Order	11
Vehicle Crime	6
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Burglary	4
Other Theft	4
Drugs	3
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	119

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 Caterham. 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 Caterham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hamsey Green (2.78 miles)	188
South Merstham (3.1 miles)	135
Caterham	119
Warlingham (2.24 miles)	88
Kenley (2.56 miles)	84
Old Coulsdon (1.75 miles)	66
Warwick Wold (2.24 miles)	36
Tyler’s Green (2.24 miles)	24
Church Town (2.78 miles)	15
Brewer Street (2.56 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Caterham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hamsey Green	54
Caterham	50
South Merstham	40
Old Coulsdon	33
Warlingham	32
Warwick Wold	28
Kenley	24
Church Town	11
Tyler’s Green	10
Brewer Street	3

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

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 Caterham 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 Caterham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Caterham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Caterham is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Godstone	69
2	Bletchingley and Nutfield	66
3	Hooley, Merstham & Netherne	62
4	Queens Park	59
5	Warlingham West	47
6	Valley	46
7	Whyteleafe	44
8	Westway	43
9	Harestone	39
10	Portley	29
11	Chaldon	23

Which road in Caterham has the highest level of crime?

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