London · Neighbourhood crime trends

London Croydon (south)

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

19 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 south Croydon averaged 18.8 (leaving out 2 places with almost no residents), hence it is generally safer when all crimes are considered.

How do the 19 neighbourhoods of south Croydon compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 3,286 crimes across them, 18.8 for every 1,000 residents. That is 0.4% below a year earlier and 21.5% above Q1 2023, the first quarter we track.

Kenley has the lowest rate of the everyday neighbourhoods (9.9 per 1,000), followed by Riddlesdown (11.0) and Gravel Hill (11.8). Church Street has the highest (54.7).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 19 LONDON CROYDON (SOUTH) 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 (south) 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 (south) lies in the London Borough of Croydon, a borough within Outer London centred on the historic town of Croydon, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Its southern areas include Purley, Sanderstead and Kenley.

Notable neighbourhoods in Croydon (south) include:

Purley and Riddlesdown. Purley has a history going back at least 800 years. It was originally granted as an estate from holdings at Sanderstead, later belonged to Surrey, and became part of London in 1965. Riddlesdown is both a residential district and a green space, also known as Riddlesdown Common, maintained by the City of London Corporation.

Kenley and Sanderstead. Kenley was part of an ancient parish in Surrey and was connected to central London by rail in 1856. It includes Kenley Common and Kenley Aerodrome. Sanderstead is a village and medieval-founded church parish, formerly in Surrey until 1965. It takes in Purley Downs and Sanderstead Plantation, woodland that includes the second-highest point in London.

Lowest rate (everyday)

Kenley

9.9 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

Church Street

54.7 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

18.8 per 1,000

0.4% below a year earlier ·

21.5% above Q1 2023

Compared

19 neighbourhoods

174,608 residents · 14 quarters

London Croydon (south) 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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377 611 Enters Coulsdon Town Bound for Tattenham Corner, Coulsdon Town — **Coulsdon Town** · 377 611 Enters Coulsdon Town Bound for Tattenham Corner
Photo: srfurley, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Purley, UK, Purley — **Purley** · Purley, UK
Photo: L Folan, CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Waddon, Waddon — **Waddon** · Waddon
Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

<Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Croydon London New Addington Roundabout (Wates Croydon II), L3-23.Jpg</Div>, New Addington — **New Addington** · <Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Croydon London New Addington Roundabout (Wates Croydon II), L3-23.Jpg</Div>
Photo: Miles Glendinning, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

New Morning Star Office in Ruskin House, 2021, South Croydon — **South Croydon** · New Morning Star Office in Ruskin House, 2021
Photo: Pierre Marshall, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

'Clan Line', Purley — **Purley** · 'Clan Line'
Photo: Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

<Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Croydon London Lodge Lane, New Addington, L3-22.Jpg</Div>, New Addington — **New Addington** · <Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Croydon London Lodge Lane, New Addington, L3-22.Jpg</Div>
Photo: Miles Glendinning, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Little Bay, Croydon 2025-09-16, South Croydon — **South Croydon** · Little Bay, Croydon 2025-09-16
Photo: Bex Walton, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

How neighbourhoods moved each quarter

2023

Whole-area crime rate 15.5 to 17.7 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2023).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Whyteleafe 11th→6th (Q2) King Henry's Drive 13th→9th (Q2) moved down Fieldway 9th→13th (Q2) Coombe Lane 3rd→10th (Q3) Gravel Hill 7th→14th (Q3) Woodmansterne 1st→5th (Q4) Coombe Lane 10th→6th (Q4) Lloyd Park 8th→15th (Q4)

2024

Whole-area crime rate 17.2 to 20.6 per 1,000 (high: Q4 2024).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Coulsdon South 8th→4th (Q1) moved down Kenley 2nd→7th (Q1) Lloyd Park 13th→5th (Q2) Purley Oaks 11th→6th (Q2) Whyteleafe 5th→10th (Q2) Kenley 7th→13th (Q2) Coulsdon Town 6th→14th (Q2) Whyteleafe 10th→1st (Q3) Coulsdon Town 14th→9th (Q3) Coombe Lane 9th→13th (Q3) King Henry's Drive 11th→15th (Q3) moved up Kenley 11th→3rd (Q4) Fieldway 10th→5th (Q4) moved down Whyteleafe 1st→6th (Q4) Gravel Hill 12th→7th (Q4) Coombe Lane 13th→8th (Q4) Sanderstead 2nd→13th (Q4) Lloyd Park 7th→17th (Q4)

2025

Whole-area crime rate 17.9 to 19.7 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Whyteleafe 6th→1st (Q1) Addington Village 9th→5th (Q1) Purley Oaks 11th→6th (Q1) moved down Coulsdon South 2nd→7th (Q1) Lloyd Park 17th→13th (Q1) New Addington 14th→18th (Q1) Sanderstead 14th→6th (Q2) Coulsdon Town 13th→8th (Q3) Addington Village 7th→11th (Q3) Purley Oaks 8th→12th (Q3) moved up Coombe Lane 10th→6th (Q4)

2026

Whole-area crime rate 18.2 to 18.8 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Lloyd Park 12th→8th (Q1) Purley Oaks 13th→9th (Q1) moved down Coombe Lane 6th→10th (Q1) Addington Village 8th→13th (Q1) Gravel Hill 7th→3rd (Q2) Whyteleafe 2nd→7th (Q2) Addington Village 13th→8th (Q2) Coulsdon Town 14th→10th (Q2) Lloyd Park 8th→13th (Q2)

Reported Safety Incidents

In Q2 2026: violent incidents were 34% (1,132), public order incidents were 27% (883), property incidents were 26% (870) and vehicle crimes were 12% (401).

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.

Places we left out, and places to read with care

Left out: Chipstead; Upper Warlingham. They have almost no residents: their crimes are against visitors, so a rate per resident says little about living there.

Whyteleafe (15.0 per 1,000 from 31 crimes among 2,066 residents) is a place with few residents (under 3,000): a rate on so few people says little about living there, so it is not named as the lowest or highest.

The 19 neighbourhoods on the map

Croydon (south) is made of 19 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: 174,608 residents between them.

Addington Village
Church Street
Coombe Lane
Coulsdon South
Coulsdon Town
Fieldway
Gravel Hill
Kenley
King Henry's Drive
Lloyd Park
New Addington
Purley
Purley Oaks
Riddlesdown
Sanderstead
South Croydon
Waddon
Whyteleafe
Woodmansterne

All 19 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	Kenley	9,611	9.9	3.3	3.4	0.8	2.3	6%	2
2	Riddlesdown	8,553	11.0	4.9	2.0	1.9	2.2	29%	–
3	Gravel Hill	13,227	11.8	4.2	3.3	1.2	3.2	2%	4
4	Sanderstead	10,559	12.4	4.3	2.1	2.8	3.3	17%	–
5	Coulsdon South	11,310	13.4	5.0	2.0	1.0	5.5	14%	1
6	Woodmansterne	5,543	13.9	3.6	3.4	2.2	4.7	71%	5
7	Whyteleafe †	2,066	15.0	9.7	2.4	0.0	2.9	7%	4
8	Addington Village	5,630	15.8	7.6	3.0	1.4	3.7	11%	4
9	Coombe Lane	8,009	15.9	4.4	2.9	2.6	6.0	35%	4
10	Coulsdon Town	10,333	16.2	5.2	7.0	1.3	2.7	26%	–
11	Purley Oaks	8,830	16.4	5.2	4.2	2.4	4.6	35%	3
12	Fieldway	10,947	16.4	7.3	3.1	1.7	4.3	32%	3
13	Lloyd Park	3,796	17.4	6.8	1.3	5.3	4.0	0%	1
14	King Henry's Drive	4,583	19.2	10.7	3.5	1.8	3.3	19%	1
15	Purley	15,230	21.9	7.8	6.0	3.4	4.7	22%	–
16	Waddon	19,206	22.4	8.4	4.4	2.5	7.1	5%	–
17	New Addington	8,799	22.7	9.0	4.8	2.2	6.8	6%	–
18	South Croydon	14,357	35.2	7.3	15.8	4.1	7.9	58%	–
19	Church Street	4,019	54.7	16.2	14.7	5.2	18.7	28%	–

† Whyteleafe is a place with few residents. A rate on a very small number of residents or crimes is not comparable with the others.

Photographs

24 photographs of the 19 neighbourhoods run along the reel; click one to see it full size. Each is credited here and under the large view.

All 24 photographs and their credits

Coulsdon Town · 377 611 Enters Coulsdon Town Bound for Tattenham Corner. Photo: srfurley, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Purley · Purley, UK. Photo: L Folan, CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Waddon · Waddon. Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
New Addington · <Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Croydon London New Addington Roundabout (Wates Croydon II), L3-23.Jpg</Div>. Photo: Miles Glendinning, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · New Morning Star Office in Ruskin House, 2021. Photo: Pierre Marshall, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Purley · 'Clan Line'. Photo: Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
New Addington · <Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Croydon London Lodge Lane, New Addington, L3-22.Jpg</Div>. Photo: Miles Glendinning, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · Little Bay, Croydon 2025-09-16. Photo: Bex Walton, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Purley · Bikes at Purley Station. Photo: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
New Addington · <Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Croydon London Chertsey Crescent, New Addington (Wates Croydon III), L3-37.Jpg</Div>. Photo: Miles Glendinning, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · Railway Bridge at South Croydon Station. Photo: srfurley, Public domain · Flickr
Purley · Peter Cushing - 32 St James' Road Purley London CR8 2DL. Photo: Spudgun67, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
South Croydon · Railway Bridge at South Croydon Station. Photo: srfurley, Public domain · Flickr
Purley · Orchard House, 15a Purley Road, South Croydon (April 2011). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · PAGA Outreach Ministries Church (Former Salvation Army Citadel), Brighton Road, South Croydon (April 2011) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · Croham Road Baptist Church, Croham Road, South Croydon (April 2011) (3). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · Croham Road Baptist Church, Croham Road, South Croydon (April 2011) (2). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · Brighton Road Baptist Church, Brighton Road, South Croydon (April 2011) (2). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · South Croydon United Church, Aberdeen Road, South Croydon (April 2011) (2). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · Emmanuel Church, Hurst Way, South Croydon (April 2011) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · Croham Road Baptist Church, Croham Road, South Croydon (April 2011) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · South Croydon United Church, Aberdeen Road, South Croydon (April 2011) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · Brighton Road Baptist Church, Brighton Road, South Croydon (April 2011) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
South Croydon · Brethren Meeting Room, Haling Road, South Croydon (April 2011) (1). Photo: User:Hassocks5489, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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.