Crime Statistics for Anerley, London, Croydon, 2024

Is Anerley rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 645 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 Anerley, 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 Crime181
Anti Social Behaviour129
Vehicle Crime92
Shoplifting69
Drugs35
Criminal Damage Arson32
Burglary28
Public Order20
Other Theft19
Robbery14
Theft From The Person11
Other Crime9
Bicycle Theft4
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime645

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
South Norwood (0.88 miles)1251
Norwood New Town (1.39 miles)866
Anerley645
Penge (0.62 miles)608
Lower Sydenham (1.39 miles)607
New Beckenham (1.39 miles)465
Monks Orchard (1.39 miles)277
Beckenham (1.86 miles)271
Upper Elmers End (1.75 miles)262
Eden Park (1.39 miles)244

38.49%
of South Norwood residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Anerley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Norwood417
Norwood New Town302
Anerley181
Monks Orchard169
Penge157
Lower Sydenham143
New Beckenham108
Upper Elmers End97
Eden Park81
Beckenham54

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

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 Anerley 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 Anerley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Selhurst85
2Gipsy Hill78
3Crystal Palace76
4South Norwood75
5Thornton Heath74
6Bensham Manor72
7Knight's Hill69
8Norbury Park69
9Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood67
10Woodside67
11Dulwich Wood66

Which road in Anerley has the highest level of crime?

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

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

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