Crime Statistics for Telegraph Hill, London, Lewisham, 2024

Is Telegraph Hill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 1043 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 Telegraph Hill, 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 Crime271
Anti Social Behaviour140
Other Theft114
Theft From The Person82
Vehicle Crime77
Criminal Damage Arson73
Burglary61
Drugs58
Shoplifting51
Public Order47
Robbery41
Possession Of Weapons11
Other Crime9
Bicycle Theft8
All Crime1043

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
St Johns (0.68 miles)1725
New Cross Gate (0.56 miles)1423
Peckham (1.18 miles)1406
Hatcham (0.56 miles)876
Evelyn (1.32 miles)792
Telegraph Hill572
Nunhead (0.83 miles)492
New Cross (0.06 miles)432
Brockley (1.24 miles)430
Honor Oak Park (1.24 miles)428

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Where are the most violent places near Telegraph Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
St Johns465
Peckham398
New Cross Gate347
Evelyn290
Telegraph Hill271
Hatcham188
Brockley185
New Cross176
Honor Oak Park147
Nunhead132

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Telegraph 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 Telegraph 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 Telegraph Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Rye Lane82
2New Cross82
3Nunhead & Queen's Road77
4Brockley74
5Peckham73
6Greenwich West70
7Evelyn64
8Blackheath63
9Ladywell58
10Telegraph Hill57
11Peckham Rye55

Which road in Telegraph Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

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

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