London · Neighbourhood crime trends

London Croydon (north)

Name: Crimes per 1,000 residents by neighbourhood, Croydon (north), Q1 2023 to Q2 2026
Creator: CrimesLog

21 neighbourhoods - a quarterly race to the lowest crime rate.

Crime Trends: Neighbourhoods compared - each quarter from Q1 2023

London as a whole averaged 28.0 crimes for every 1,000 residents per quarter in Q2 2026, while north Croydon averaged 28.5, hence it is generally about as safe as London as a whole when all crimes are considered.

How do the 21 neighbourhoods of north Croydon compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 6,546 crimes across them, 28.5 for every 1,000 residents. That is 2.2% below a year earlier and 16.8% above Q1 2023, the first quarter we track.

Sandilands has the lowest rate of the everyday neighbourhoods (11.1 per 1,000), followed by Harrington Road (13.7) and Arena (15.7). Waddon Marsh has the highest (73.5).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 21 LONDON CROYDON (NORTH) NEIGHBOURHOODs race across 14 quarter periods from Q1 2023 to Q2 2026 - one crime category at a time or all together. The race chart can be used to compare average crime rates by category against London's average.

Neighbourhood areas derived by CrimesLog from rail station locations (NaPTAN, Department for Transport) and OS Open Names. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024; contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

A little history

Croydon (north) in London. London has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years, and its ancient core, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium. Croydon (north) lies in the London Borough of Croydon, a borough within Outer London. At the borough's centre is the historic town of Croydon, which gave the borough its name and is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Notable neighbourhoods in Croydon (north) include:

Selhurst and Thornton Heath. Selhurst is a suburb in the London Borough of Croydon, historically in Surrey. The stadium Selhurst Park, home of a football club, stands at the northern end of the neighbourhood. Thornton Heath is a district of South London in the same borough. Before Greater London was created in 1965, it was in the County Borough of Croydon.

Norwood Junction and East Croydon. Norwood Junction is an interchange station between the London Overground's Windrush line and National Rail services run by Southern and Thameslink. East Croydon is a railway station, tram stop and bus station. It is one of three railway stations in the borough with Croydon in their name; West Croydon is another.

Lowest rate (everyday)

Sandilands

11.1 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

Waddon Marsh

73.5 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

28.5 per 1,000

2.2% below a year earlier ·

16.8% above Q1 2023

Compared

21 neighbourhoods

229,628 residents · 14 quarters

London Croydon (north) neighbourhood quarterly crime race

Press ▶︎ to watch Q1 2023 to Q2 2026. Tick one crime category or several; hover a bar for the neighbourhood. Property crimes includes burglaries and thefts.

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Row of Flats on Harrington Road, Harrington Road

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Harrington Road, London, Harrington Road — **Harrington Road** · Harrington Road, London
Photo: APK, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Norbury Station, Norbury — **Norbury** · Norbury Station
Photo: Simon from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Woodside Platform2, Woodside — **Woodside** · Woodside Platform2
Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

BRIT School Outside, Selhurst — **Selhurst** · BRIT School Outside
Photo: TakoizuWasTaken, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon (April 2013) (3), Addiscombe — **Addiscombe** · East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon (April 2013) (3)
Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Hall Stanley Halls South Norwood Open House 2017-6, Norwood Junction — **Norwood Junction** · Hall Stanley Halls South Norwood Open House 2017-6
Photo: Paul Dykes from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Kabul Supermarket, Thornton Heath — **Thornton Heath** · Kabul Supermarket
Photo: grassrootsgroundswell, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

Derby Road, West Croydon — **West Croydon** · Derby Road
Photo: Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

How neighbourhoods moved each quarter

2023

Whole-area crime rate 24.4 to 29.0 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2023).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved down Lebanon Road 1st→5th (Q3)

2024

Whole-area crime rate 27.8 to 30.2 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2024).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Wandle Park 13th→6th (Q1) moved down Addiscombe 10th→14th (Q1) Therapia Lane 9th→5th (Q2) Addiscombe 14th→9th (Q2) Lebanon Road 5th→14th (Q2) Wellesley Road 19th→15th (Q2) Wandle Park 7th→13th (Q3) Wellesley Road 15th→20th (Q3) Lebanon Road 12th→7th (Q4) Blackhorse Lane 6th→10th (Q4)

2025

Whole-area crime rate 25.9 to 29.2 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Blackhorse Lane 10th→3rd (Q1) moved down Addiscombe 4th→8th (Q1) Lebanon Road 7th→12th (Q1) Blackhorse Lane 3rd→7th (Q2) Norwood Junction 13th→9th (Q3) Lebanon Road 10th→14th (Q3) Lebanon Road 14th→8th (Q4) Blackhorse Lane 5th→9th (Q4) Norwood Junction 9th→13th (Q4)

2026

Whole-area crime rate 26.9 to 28.5 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Blackhorse Lane 9th→4th (Q1) moved down Woodside 4th→9th (Q1) Norbury 5th→10th (Q1) Wellesley Road 15th→19th (Q1) Norbury 10th→5th (Q2) Addiscombe 5th→10th (Q2) Lebanon Road 6th→11th (Q2)

Reported Safety Incidents

In Q2 2026: violent incidents were 37% (2,451), property incidents were 26% (1,722), public order incidents were 26% (1,703) and vehicle crimes were 10% (670).

Recorded crime here is grouped into violent crime, property crime (burglary and theft), vehicle crime and public order offences, so you can compare how safe each neighbourhood is for the kind of crime that matters to you.

Read category comparisons with care. A category that jumps while the total hardly moves looks like a change in how offences are classified, not in what happened: Q2 2026: vehicle up 31% while the total moved 6%. The whole-area rate is the steadier guide.

Places we left out, and places to read with care

No place is left out: every neighbourhood in this race has residents to count.

Reeves Corner (85.6 per 1,000 from 63 crimes among 736 residents), Centrale (133.3 per 1,000 from 131 crimes among 983 residents) and Wellesley Road (128.6 per 1,000 from 242 crimes among 1,882 residents) are places with few residents (under 3,000): a rate on so few people says little about living there, so they are not named as the lowest or highest.

The 21 neighbourhoods on the map

Croydon (north) is made of 21 neighbourhoods compared here, each in its own colour on the map. They are neighbourhood areas derived by CrimesLog from rail station locations and OS Open Names: 229,628 residents between them.

Addiscombe
Ampere Way
Arena
Blackhorse Lane
Centrale
East Croydon
George Street
Harrington Road
Lebanon Road
Norbury
Norwood Junction
Reeves Corner
Sandilands
Selhurst
Therapia Lane
Thornton Heath
Waddon Marsh
Wandle Park
Wellesley Road
West Croydon
Woodside

All 21 neighbourhoods, Q2 2026

Crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026, lowest first. The last two columns compare with Q1 2023.
#	Neighbourhood	Residents	All	Violent	Property	Vehicle	Public order	Rate vs Q1 2023	Places gained
1	Sandilands	4,958	11.1	4.6	1.6	2.0	2.8	14%	–
2	Harrington Road	5,748	13.7	6.3	2.1	2.3	3.1	14%	2
3	Arena	10,955	15.7	5.8	4.3	2.1	3.6	16%	1
4	Blackhorse Lane	8,359	19.3	8.1	4.1	1.4	5.6	18%	1
5	Norbury	31,963	19.8	7.0	5.3	2.8	4.7	13%	1
6	Therapia Lane	11,654	20.1	7.9	3.7	2.8	5.8	0%	4
7	Woodside	7,082	20.5	10.3	3.1	2.3	4.8	14%	1
8	Wandle Park	4,900	20.6	8.4	6.5	1.0	4.7	16%	1
9	Selhurst	14,509	22.4	7.8	5.4	2.7	6.5	1%	3
10	Addiscombe	9,674	23.6	6.2	11.8	1.4	4.1	31%	1
11	Lebanon Road	7,741	24.3	9.4	5.7	1.9	7.2	77%	8
12	Norwood Junction	18,986	24.4	9.4	5.7	2.1	7.2	7%	2
13	Thornton Heath	42,036	27.0	11.5	4.9	3.3	7.3	27%	2
14	Ampere Way	10,255	29.4	10.0	8.7	3.1	7.6	18%	1
15	West Croydon	21,491	42.0	17.8	7.7	3.9	12.7	19%	–
16	East Croydon	6,465	51.4	21.8	11.0	5.3	13.3	11%	1
17	George Street	5,305	69.0	29.0	14.3	6.8	18.9	16%	1
18	Waddon Marsh	3,946	73.5	12.7	45.6	3.5	11.7	77%	2
19	Reeves Corner †	736	85.6	29.9	12.2	8.2	35.3	37%	–
20	Wellesley Road †	1,882	128.6	18.6	88.2	8.0	13.8	82%	–
21	Centrale †	983	133.3	37.6	44.8	4.1	46.8	29%	–

† Reeves Corner, Centrale and Wellesley Road are places with few residents. A rate on a very small number of residents or crimes is not comparable with the others.

Photographs

51 photographs of the 21 neighbourhoods run along the reel; click one to see it full size. Each is credited here and under the large view.

All 51 photographs and their credits

Harrington Road · Harrington Road, London. Photo: APK, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Norbury · Norbury Station. Photo: Simon from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Woodside · Woodside Platform2. Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Selhurst · BRIT School Outside. Photo: TakoizuWasTaken, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Addiscombe · East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon (April 2013) (3). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Norwood Junction · Hall Stanley Halls South Norwood Open House 2017-6. Photo: Paul Dykes from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Thornton Heath · Kabul Supermarket. Photo: grassrootsgroundswell, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
West Croydon · Derby Road. Photo: Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Croydon · Al-Khair Secondary School. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
George Street · Croydon's Victorian Town Hall and Clocktower. Photo: el ui, CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Harrington Road · Row of Flats on Harrington Road. Photo: Gene Hunt, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Norbury · Norbury Station Viaduct. Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Woodside · Church of God of Prophecy, 56 Elmers Road, Woodside, Croydon (December 2023) (3). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Selhurst · Selhurst Station. Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Addiscombe · Church of the Nazarene, Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon (May 2024) (2). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Norwood Junction · Picture Gallery Rooflights Stanley Halls South Norwood Open House 2017-12. Photo: Paul Dykes from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Thornton Heath · Baltic Food. Photo: grassrootsgroundswell, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
West Croydon · Croydon. Photo: Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Croydon · 'Tornado' Leaving East Croydon. Photo: Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
George Street · Croydon Clock Tower. Photo: Alan Laing from London, UK, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Norbury · Flats London Road. Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Woodside · Church of God of Prophecy, 56 Elmers Road, Woodside, Croydon (December 2023) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Selhurst · Pawsons Arms, Thornton Heath. Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Addiscombe · Christ Church, Lower Addiscombe Road, Addiscombe, Croydon (May 2024) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Norwood Junction · Fireplace Stanley Halls South Norwood Open House 2017-18. Photo: Paul Dykes from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Thornton Heath · Thornton Heath Evangelical Church. Photo: grassrootsgroundswell, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
West Croydon · WestCroydonRailwayStation-27Jun2024. Photo: RegionVisitor90, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Croydon · 'Dominion of New Zealand' Leaving East Croydon. Photo: Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
George Street · Crushed Bean, Croydon Interior - 2025-09-16. Photo: Bex Walton, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Norbury · London Road Shops. Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Woodside · Woodside Baptist Church, 29 Spring Lane, Woodside, Croydon (December 2023) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Selhurst · Selhurst Road Co-Op on Selhurst New Road in Selhurst, South-East London. Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Addiscombe · <Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Croydon London Lower Addiscombe Road and Grant Place, L3-04.Jpg</Div>. Photo: Miles Glendinning, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Norwood Junction · Arthur Conan Doyle House. Photo: Pafcool2, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Thornton Heath · Pond Fish and Chips. Photo: grassrootsgroundswell, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
East Croydon · View from East Croydon Station. Photo: el ui, CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
George Street · Crushed Bean, Croydon 2025-09-16. Photo: Bex Walton, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Woodside · The Gold Coast Pub. Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Selhurst · The Two Brewers Pub, Selhurst, South-East London. Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Addiscombe · <Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Croydon London 161 Lower Addiscombe Road, L3-20.Jpg</Div>. Photo: Miles Glendinning, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Norwood Junction · Norwood Clock 15 April 2023. Photo: Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Croydon · East Croydon Station. Photo: lucyrfisher, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Woodside · Woodside Green Christian Centre, Junction of Woodside Green and Hermitage Road, Woodside, Croydon (December 2023) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Addiscombe · No. 1 Croydon (Formerly NLA Tower), 12–16 Addiscombe Road, Croydon (April 2013). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Croydon · East Croydon Station Signage. Photo: Oxyman, CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
Addiscombe · Clyde Hall (Former Congregational Sunday School), Clyde Road, Addiscombe, Croydon (May 2024) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Croydon · Hayley Welsh Street Art Near East Croydon Station. Photo: Matt From London, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Addiscombe · No. 1 Croydon (Formerly NLA Tower), 12–16 Addiscombe Road, Croydon (July 2020) (2). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Croydon · Entrance to East Croydon Railway Station. Photo: Peter G Trimming, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Addiscombe · No. 1 Croydon (Formerly NLA Tower), 12–16 Addiscombe Road, Croydon (July 2020) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
East Croydon · Croydon. George Street Near East Croydon Station. Post Office. 1906 SURREY. Photo: mark's vintage topographical postcards, Public domain · Flickr

Sources and notes

CrimesLog sources crime incident data as published by the UK Home Office through their national data portal at data.police.uk and licensed under their Open Government Licence v3.0. Reported crime incidents originate from individual Territorial Police Forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Contains ONS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains NISRA data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Rates are recorded crimes per 1,000 residents, quarter by quarter; where a neighbourhood has fewer than 100 residents the rate would be worked out on 100 (those places are left out of the race). A count of recorded crime is not a verdict on any neighbourhood.

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