Crime Statistics for Balham, London, Wandsworth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Balham in September 2024. There were a total of 597 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 Balham, 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 Crime142
Anti Social Behaviour126
Vehicle Crime60
Other Theft54
Shoplifting50
Burglary38
Theft From The Person32
Public Order31
Criminal Damage Arson25
Robbery12
Bicycle Theft11
Drugs11
Other Crime4
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime597

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 Balham. 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 Balham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Clapham (1.39 miles)1681
Stockwell (1.75 miles)1511
Streatham Hill (1.24 miles)1359
Tooting Graveney (1.39 miles)766
Streatham Park (1.39 miles)725
Streatham (1.75 miles)637
Clapham Park (0.88 miles)608
Balham597
Earlsfield (1.24 miles)439
Southfields (1.86 miles)386

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Where are the most violent places near Balham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Clapham348
Stockwell325
Streatham Hill311
Clapham Park260
Tooting Graveney205
Streatham Park188
Streatham159
Balham142
Earlsfield135
Southfields97

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

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 Balham 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 Balham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Balham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Balham is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1St Leonard's74
2Tooting71
3Clapham Common66
4Graveney64
5Bedford63
6Wandsworth Common62
7Thornton58
8Balham58
9Nightingale55
10Furzedown48
11Earlsfield42

Which road in Balham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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