Crime Statistics for Addington, London, Croydon, 2024

Crime statistics for Addington, London

There were a total of 136 street level crime incidents in Addington in January 2024. 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 Addington, 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 Crime37
Anti Social Behaviour21
Criminal Damage Arson19
Vehicle Crime16
Public Order8
Other Theft8
Burglary7
Shoplifting4
Other Crime4
Drugs4
Robbery3
Theft From The Person3
Possession Of Weapons1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime136

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Addington. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Addington

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Addiscombe (2.24 miles)541
Monks Orchard (2.24 miles)416
Shirley (1.75 miles)273
Upper Elmers End (1.96 miles)268
New Addington (1.39 miles)155
Park Langley (1.96 miles)155
Addington136
Spring Park (0.88 miles)109
Forestdale (1.39 miles)101
Coney Hall (1.24 miles)89

24.64%
of Selsdon & Addington Village residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Addington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Addiscombe146
Monks Orchard121
Upper Elmers End69
Shirley68
Park Langley56
New Addington50
Addington37
Coney Hall30
Forestdale22
Spring Park19

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

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 Addington 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 Addington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Addington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Addington is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1New Addington North67
2New Addington South67
3Park Hill & Whitgift63
4Addiscombe East54
5Shirley South50
6Selsdon & Addington Village47
7Selsdon Vale & Forestdale47
8Shirley North44
9Hayes and Coney Hall34
10Sanderstead31
11West Wickham20

Which road in Addington has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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