Crime Statistics for Battersea, London, Wandsworth, 2025

Is Battersea rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 905 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 Battersea, 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	198
Anti Social Behaviour	181
Shoplifting	119
Vehicle Crime	87
Other Theft	84
Theft From The Person	66
Criminal Damage Arson	43
Burglary	36
Drugs	32
Public Order	25
Robbery	15
Bicycle Theft	10
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	905

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chelsea (0.88 miles)	1673
Pimlico (1.39 miles)	1418
Sands End (1.24 miles)	1383
Clapham (0.88 miles)	1367
Lambeth (1.75 miles)	1347
South Lambeth (1.24 miles)	1321
Kennington (1.39 miles)	1240
Stockwell (1.39 miles)	1166
Battersea	905
Clapham Park (1.39 miles)	855

Where are the most violent places near Battersea?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chelsea	386
Sands End	305
South Lambeth	292
Kennington	277
Clapham	271
Lambeth	264
Stockwell	263
Pimlico	233
Battersea	198
Clapham Park	172

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

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 Battersea 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 Battersea compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Battersea and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Battersea is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Clapham Town	78
2	Latchmere	75
3	Clapham Common	66
4	Wandsworth Common	62
5	Queenstown	60
6	Balham	58
7	Shaftesbury	57
8	Fairfield	56
9	Sands End	53
10	Northcote	49
11	St Mary's Park	48

Which road in Battersea has the highest level of crime?

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