Crime Statistics for New Cross Gate, London, Southwark, 2024

Crime statistics for New Cross Gate, London

There were a total of 914 street level crime incidents in New Cross Gate in January 2024. 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 New Cross Gate, 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 Crime247
Anti Social Behaviour164
Other Theft90
Vehicle Crime84
Criminal Damage Arson58
Public Order55
Theft From The Person51
Burglary47
Shoplifting43
Robbery32
Drugs21
Bicycle Theft13
Possession Of Weapons5
Other Crime4
All Crime914

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 New Cross Gate. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 New Cross Gate

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Peckham (0.62 miles)1003
St Johns (1.24 miles)946
New Cross Gate914
Hatcham914
New Cross (0.62 miles)786
Telegraph Hill (0.56 miles)780
Nunhead (0.62 miles)588
Honor Oak (1.24 miles)382
Camberwell (1.39 miles)1
Brockley (1.39 miles)0

25.84%
of Peckham Rye residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Cross Gate?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Peckham258
New Cross Gate247
Hatcham247
St Johns231
Telegraph Hill213
New Cross211
Nunhead156
Honor Oak107
Camberwell1
Brockley0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in New Cross Gate?

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 New Cross Gate 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 New Cross Gate compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Rye Lane82
2New Cross82
3Nunhead & Queen's Road77
4St Giles74
5Peckham73
6Evelyn64
7Goose Green58
8Telegraph Hill57
9Peckham Rye55
10Dulwich Hill53
11Champion Hill47

Which road in New Cross Gate has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in New Cross Gate with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Ivydale Road.

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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