Crime Statistics for St Johns, London, Lewisham, 2024

Is St Johns rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 958 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 St Johns, 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 Crime244
Anti Social Behaviour187
Other Theft96
Theft From The Person70
Public Order58
Vehicle Crime57
Burglary51
Shoplifting51
Drugs49
Criminal Damage Arson49
Robbery29
Bicycle Theft8
Other Crime6
Possession Of Weapons3
All Crime958

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 St Johns. 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 St Johns

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

LocationCrime Incidents
New Cross Gate (1.24 miles)1494
Evelyn (1.27 miles)1155
St Johns958
Hatcham (1.24 miles)916
Ladywell (1.24 miles)900
Isle of Dogs (1.24 miles)794
New Cross (0.62 miles)702
Telegraph Hill (0.68 miles)671
Blackheath (1.24 miles)583
Nunhead (1.39 miles)510

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Where are the most violent places near St Johns?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
New Cross Gate354
Evelyn309
Ladywell308
Hatcham272
St Johns244
Blackheath213
Isle of Dogs188
New Cross187
Telegraph Hill173
Nunhead116

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

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 St Johns 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 St Johns compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St Johns and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.St Johns is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1New Cross82
2Nunhead & Queen's Road77
3Rushey Green77
4Brockley74
5Greenwich West70
6Evelyn64
7Blackheath63
8Ladywell58
9Telegraph Hill57
10Peckham Rye55
11Catford South52

Which road in St Johns has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in St Johns with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Pearson's Avenue.

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

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