Crime Statistics for Peckham, London, Southwark, 2024

There were a total of 1003 street level crime incidents in Peckham 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 Peckham, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	258
Anti Social Behaviour	172
Vehicle Crime	108
Other Theft	93
Theft From The Person	71
Burglary	66
Criminal Damage Arson	58
Public Order	55
Robbery	45
Shoplifting	29
Bicycle Theft	20
Drugs	18
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1003

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 Peckham. 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 Peckham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Walworth (1.75 miles)	1411
Camberwell (0.88 miles)	1219
Peckham	1003
New Cross Gate (0.62 miles)	914
Hatcham (0.62 miles)	914
New Cross (1.24 miles)	786
Telegraph Hill (1.18 miles)	780
Nunhead (0.88 miles)	588
Herne Hill (1.75 miles)	527
Honor Oak (1.39 miles)	382

Where are the most violent places near Peckham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walworth	359
Camberwell	313
Peckham	258
New Cross Gate	247
Hatcham	247
Telegraph Hill	213
New Cross	211
Nunhead	156
Herne Hill	123
Honor Oak	107

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

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 Peckham 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 Peckham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rye Lane	82
2	New Cross	82
3	Nunhead & Queen's Road	77
4	St Giles	74
5	Peckham	73
6	Herne Hill	67
7	Goose Green	58
8	Telegraph Hill	57
9	Peckham Rye	55
10	Dulwich Hill	53
11	Champion Hill	47

Which road in Peckham has the highest level of crime?

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