Crime Statistics for Kennington, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kennington in August 2024. There were a total of 1108 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour301
Violent Crime247
Theft From The Person144
Robbery70
Public Order67
Burglary47
Other Theft46
Criminal Damage Arson44
Drugs43
Vehicle Crime38
Shoplifting26
Bicycle Theft15
Possession Of Weapons12
Other Crime8
All Crime1108

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Stockwell (1.24 miles)2214
Pimlico (0.88 miles)1892
The Borough (1.75 miles)1595
Battersea (1.39 miles)1386
South Lambeth (0.62 miles)1349
Lambeth (0.62 miles)1273
Walworth (1.39 miles)1224
Brixton (1.39 miles)1194
Kennington1108
Clapham (1.39 miles)737

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Where are the most violent places near Kennington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Stockwell471
Pimlico398
The Borough382
South Lambeth304
Battersea297
Lambeth279
Walworth263
Brixton260
Kennington247
Clapham157

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

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 Kennington 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 Kennington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kennington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Kennington is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Ferndale84
2Larkhall80
3Camberwell Green79
4Clapham Town78
5Vassall77
6Oval75
7Stockwell64
8Queenstown60
9Prince's59
10Churchill46
11Tachbrook46

Which road in Kennington has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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