Crime Statistics for Knight’s Hill, London, Lambeth, 2024

Is Knight’s Hill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 997 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Vehicle Crime214
Anti Social Behaviour194
Violent Crime190
Other Theft90
Criminal Damage Arson64
Burglary50
Drugs48
Public Order44
Robbery31
Bicycle Theft24
Theft From The Person20
Shoplifting16
Other Crime10
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime997

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Knight’s Hill. 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 Knight’s Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Stockwell (1.75 miles)1340
Brixton (1.39 miles)1240
Tulse Hill (0.62 miles)1160
Streatham (1.75 miles)1094
Streatham Hill (1.24 miles)1035
Knight’s Hill777
Dulwich (1.39 miles)662
Herne Hill (0.62 miles)561
Forest Hill (1.86 miles)553
Dulwich Village (0.62 miles)443

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



Where are the most violent places near Knight’s Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Streatham589
Brixton321
Stockwell293
Streatham Hill273
Tulse Hill248
Knight’s Hill190
Forest Hill189
Dulwich165
Dulwich Village140
Herne Hill97

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Knight’s Hill?

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 Knight’s Hill 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 Knight’s Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Coldharbour80
2Thurlow Park75
3Brixton Hill75
4St Leonard's74
5Tulse Hill71
6Streatham Hill69
7Knight's Hill69
8Dulwich Wood66
9Dulwich Village66
10Streatham Wells56
11Dulwich Hill53

Which road in Knight’s Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

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

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