Crime Statistics for Wandsworth, London, , 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wandsworth in September 2024. There were a total of 650 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 Wandsworth, 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	162
Anti Social Behaviour	122
Vehicle Crime	74
Shoplifting	55
Other Theft	51
Public Order	41
Burglary	35
Bicycle Theft	25
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Theft From The Person	21
Drugs	19
Robbery	13
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	650

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 Wandsworth. 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 Wandsworth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Earl’s Court (1.86 miles)	2036
Sands End (0.88 miles)	1426
Battersea (1.96 miles)	1000
Parsons Green (0.62 miles)	975
Chelsea (1.75 miles)	893
Wandsworth	650
Fulham (0.88 miles)	471
Earlsfield (1.39 miles)	439
Southfields (1.24 miles)	386
Barnes (1.96 miles)	232

Where are the most violent places near Wandsworth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Earl’s Court	578
Sands End	447
Parsons Green	319
Battersea	270
Chelsea	223
Wandsworth	162
Earlsfield	135
Fulham	100
Southfields	97
Barnes	45

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

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 Wandsworth 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 Wandsworth compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Latchmere	75
2	Palace Riverside	64
3	Wandsworth Common	62
4	Fairfield	56
5	Thamesfield	52
6	Munster	51
7	Northcote	49
8	West Putney	44
9	Southfields	43
10	West Hill	37
11	East Putney	35

Which road in Wandsworth has the highest level of crime?

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