Crime Statistics for South Lambeth, London, Lambeth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Lambeth in September 2024. There were a total of 2000 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 South Lambeth, 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 Crime471
Anti Social Behaviour308
Theft From The Person185
Other Theft171
Shoplifting154
Vehicle Crime133
Public Order130
Burglary119
Criminal Damage Arson105
Drugs92
Robbery82
Other Crime22
Bicycle Theft15
Possession Of Weapons13
All Crime2000

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Walworth (1.75 miles)1788
Brixton (0.88 miles)1620
Clapham (0.88 miles)1579
Lambeth (1.24 miles)1573
Stockwell (0.62 miles)1511
Kennington (0.62 miles)1389
South Lambeth1239
Pimlico (1.39 miles)1152
Battersea (1.24 miles)1134
Clapham Park (1.39 miles)847

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Where are the most violent places near South Lambeth?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
South Lambeth471
Walworth351
Clapham337
Stockwell325
Brixton306
Lambeth296
Kennington283
Pimlico256
Battersea206
Clapham Park145

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

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 Lambeth 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 Lambeth compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ferndale84
2Larkhall80
3Coldharbour80
4Clapham Town78
5Vassall77
6Brixton Hill75
7Oval75
8Tulse Hill71
9Clapham Common66
10Stockwell64
11Churchill46

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

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

Last updated: September 2024
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