Crime Statistics for Chessington, London, Kingston Upon Thames, 2024

Crime statistics for Chessington, London

There were a total of 95 street level crime incidents in Chessington 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 Chessington, 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 Crime28
Anti Social Behaviour26
Criminal Damage Arson17
Other Theft8
Vehicle Crime5
Public Order3
Shoplifting3
Burglary2
Other Crime1
Drugs1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime95

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 Chessington. 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 Chessington

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Southborough (1.86 miles)295
Ewell (1.96 miles)288
Tolworth (1.39 miles)256
Epsom (2.24 miles)159
Hook (0.62 miles)145
Chessington95
Barwell (0.62 miles)73
Giggshill (2.24 miles)61
Long Ditton (2.24 miles)61
Malden Rushett (1.39 miles)6

22.48%
of Ruxley residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Chessington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Southborough96
Tolworth81
Ewell79
Hook36
Epsom34
Chessington28
Barwell18
Giggshill14
Long Ditton14
Malden Rushett0

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

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 Chessington 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 Chessington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chessington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Chessington is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Court71
2Ruxley64
3Stamford53
4Tolworth and Hook Rise52
5West Ewell45
6Chessington South42
7Hinchley Wood and Weston Green39
8Chessington North and Hook35
9Cuddington28
10Ashtead Common21
11Claygate17

Which road in Chessington has the highest level of crime?

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

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