How neighbourhoods moved each quarter
2023
Whole-area crime rate 29.2 to 34.5 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2023).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Canada Water 15th→9th (Q3)
Walworth 6th→13th (Q3)
North Dulwich 3rd→7th (Q4)
2024
Whole-area crime rate 32.5 to 38.4 per 1,000 (high: Q4 2024).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): North Dulwich 7th→2nd (Q1)
2025
Whole-area crime rate 33.7 to 37.2 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2025).
Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): Canada Water 10th→5th (Q2)
Nunhead 2nd→6th (Q2)
The Borough 1st→7th (Q2)
The Borough 7th→1st (Q3)
2026
Whole-area crime rate 33.9 to 37.4 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.
No neighbourhood moved more than three places in a quarter.
Reported Safety Incidents
In Q2 2026: violent incidents were 40% (4,740), property incidents were 33% (3,855), public order incidents were 22% (2,548) and vehicle crimes were 5% (630).
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: Camberwell. They have almost no residents: their crimes are against visitors, so a rate per resident says little about living there.
Blackfriars (177.0 per 1,000 from 60 crimes among 339 residents), The Borough (12.1 per 1,000 from 8 crimes among 661 residents) and North Southwark (69.0 per 1,000 from 157 crimes among 2,277 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.








