Crime Statistics for Chelsham, Tandridge, Surrey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chelsham in September 2024. There were a total of 53 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 Chelsham, 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	25
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Shoplifting	9
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Public Order	3
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	53

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Chelsham. 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 Chelsham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
New Addington (1.96 miles)	290
Forestdale (1.96 miles)	87
Sanderstead (2.77 miles)	84
Biggin Hill (2.48 miles)	83
Hamsey Green (1.24 miles)	75
Warlingham (1.39 miles)	63
Chelsham	38
Fickleshole (0.88 miles)	12
Farleigh (0.62 miles)	12
Farleigh Court (0.62 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Chelsham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Addington	120
Forestdale	26
Biggin Hill	25
Chelsham	25
Sanderstead	24
Hamsey Green	22
Warlingham	21
Farleigh	6
Farleigh Court	6
Fickleshole	5

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

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 Chelsham 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 Chelsham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	New Addington North	67
2	New Addington South	67
3	Warlingham East and Chelsham and Farleigh	60
4	Tatsfield and Titsey	55
5	Woldingham	53
6	Warlingham West	47
7	Selsdon Vale & Forestdale	47
8	Valley	46
9	Whyteleafe	44
10	Biggin Hill	32
11	Portley	29

Which road in Chelsham has the highest level of crime?

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