Crime Statistics for South Woodford, London, Redbridge, 2024

There were a total of 249 street level crime incidents in South Woodford in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	47
Violent Crime	44
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Other Theft	31
Burglary	24
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Public Order	10
Shoplifting	8
Drugs	8
Theft From The Person	7
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	249

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walthamstow (1.96 miles)	1046
Hale End (1.39 miles)	515
Highams Park (1.96 miles)	505
Cranbrook (2.24 miles)	499
Aldersbrook (1.86 miles)	481
Wanstead (1.24 miles)	365
Chingford Hatch (1.75 miles)	346
Friday Hill (1.96 miles)	254
South Woodford	249
Buckhurst Hill (1.96 miles)	151

Where are the most violent places near South Woodford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walthamstow	221
Cranbrook	126
Aldersbrook	120
Highams Park	112
Hale End	107
Wanstead	83
Chingford Hatch	62
Friday Hill	62
South Woodford	44
Buckhurst Hill	25

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

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 Woodford 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 Woodford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to South Woodford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. South Woodford is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Hoe Street	76
2	Wanstead Park	74
3	Chapel End	66
4	Hale End and Highams Park	65
5	Wood Street	64
6	Wanstead Village	58
7	Bridge	57
8	Clayhall	56
9	South Woodford	54
10	Churchfields	50
11	Monkhams	47

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

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