Crime Statistics for South Merstham, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, 2024

Is South Merstham rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 118 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 South Merstham, 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 Crime46
Shoplifting18
Anti Social Behaviour11
Public Order9
Vehicle Crime8
Criminal Damage Arson6
Burglary6
Other Theft5
Drugs3
Possession Of Weapons2
Other Crime2
Robbery1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime118

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Holmethorpe (0.88 miles)194
Earlswood (1.96 miles)193
Coles Meads (1.39 miles)177
Redhill (1.75 miles)174
South Merstham118
Gatton (1.39 miles)24
Warwick Wold (1.24 miles)10
Nutfield (1.39 miles)9
South Nutfield (1.96 miles)9
Brewer Street (1.96 miles)7

25.86%
of Redhill East residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near South Merstham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Earlswood81
Holmethorpe75
Redhill59
Coles Meads58
South Merstham46
Warwick Wold12
Gatton9
Nutfield6
South Nutfield5
Brewer Street4

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

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 South Merstham 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 South Merstham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bletchingley and Nutfield66
2Hooley, Merstham & Netherne62
3Earlswood & Whitebushes43
4Redhill East40
5South Park & Woodhatch40
6Lower Kingswood, Tadworth & Walton35
7Redhill West & Wray Common35
8Meadvale & St John's34
9Horley East & Salfords33
10Reigate27
11Chaldon23

Which road in South Merstham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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