Crime Statistics for South Norwood, London, Croydon, 2024

There were a total of 765 street level crime incidents in South Norwood 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 South Norwood, 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	257
Anti Social Behaviour	135
Vehicle Crime	107
Criminal Damage Arson	49
Other Theft	49
Public Order	42
Drugs	33
Shoplifting	26
Burglary	24
Robbery	19
Possession Of Weapons	7
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Crime	6
Theft From The Person	5
All Crime	765

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 South Norwood. 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 South Norwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Borad Green (1.39 miles)	1278
South Norwood	765
Anerley (0.88 miles)	554
Penge (1.39 miles)	549
Addiscombe (1.39 miles)	541
Norwood New Town (1.39 miles)	512
Monks Orchard (1.39 miles)	416
Shirley (1.76 miles)	273
Upper Elmers End (1.96 miles)	268
Eden Park (1.86 miles)	242

Where are the most violent places near South Norwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Borad Green	350
South Norwood	257
Anerley	188
Norwood New Town	177
Penge	171
Addiscombe	146
Monks Orchard	121
Eden Park	70
Upper Elmers End	69
Shirley	68

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

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 South Norwood 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 South Norwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Norwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. South Norwood is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Fairfield	88
2	Selhurst	85
3	Broad Green	81
4	West Thornton	79
5	South Norwood	75
6	Thornton Heath	74
7	Bensham Manor	72
8	Norbury Park	69
9	Woodside	67
10	Addiscombe East	54
11	Addiscombe West	52

Which road in South Norwood has the highest level of crime?

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