Crime and Safety in Streatham Hill, Lambeth
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Streatham Hill are violence and sexual offences, with 538 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 22. This is 3.3% higher than 2025's figure of 521 offences and a difference of 0.70 from 2025's crime rate of 21. Streatham Hill's least common crime is other crime, with 16 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 16% from 2025's figure of 19 crimes.
Streatham Hill 2026 Crime Scorecard
41% lower, borough crime rate
London
15% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Lambeth is 41% lower than London and 15% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Lambeth Crime Rate Over Time
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Streatham Hill Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Streatham Hill represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Streatham Hill's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Streatham Hill up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Streatham Hill's 125 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
Streatham Hill • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Streatham Hill has a crime risk score of 511. This is based on analysis of 125 nearby areas within Streatham Hill, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Streatham Hill's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Streatham Hill, crime risk scores are typically around 511, while in Lambeth they are average 639.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 639 (711 for Lambeth), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 698 (Lambeth 750).
Trends in Crime Risk
Streatham Hill
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates a decrease of 22% in Streatham Hill's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Streatham Hill's crime risk score is up by 4.4%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
The risk score trend over the last year has not shown any statistically meaningful movement up or down.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Streatham Hill
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Streatham Hill • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Vehicle Crime offences have a crime rate of 8.08 reports per 1,000 people in Streatham Hill, which is 1.88 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 197 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 47 reports of Robbery in Streatham Hill, resulting in a crime rate of 1.93 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.64.
The crime rate for Theft From the Person is 1.62 times the national average at 2.09 reports per 1,000. This is from 51 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Streatham Hill
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.33 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 1.85 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 28% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.75 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.51 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 47% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending upwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
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Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.20 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 3.11 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 61% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Streatham Hill • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 597 | 24.49 | 1.73 | 9,802 | 26.78 | 1.90 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 23 | 0.93 | 1.58 | 925 | 2.52 | 3.45 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 108 | 4.44 | 1.42 | 1,790 | 4.90 | 1.57 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 130 | 5.34 | 0.85 | 2,182 | 5.94 | 0.95 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 62 | 2.53 | 0.82 | 1,813 | 4.94 | 1.60 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 16 | 0.64 | 0.59 | 442 | 1.22 | 0.66 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 160 | 6.55 | 1.15 | 4,425 | 12.07 | 2.12 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 16 | 0.64 | 0.90 | 297 | 0.80 | 0.94 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 91 | 3.75 | 0.65 | 2,282 | 6.22 | 1.07 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 47 | 1.93 | 1.64 | 1,750 | 4.78 | 4.05 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 53 | 2.17 | 0.30 | 3,563 | 9.73 | 1.36 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 51 | 2.09 | 1.62 | 4,944 | 13.48 | 8.70 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 197 | 8.08 | 1.88 | 2,520 | 6.86 | 1.60 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 538 | 22.06 | 0.73 | 10,909 | 29.78 | 0.98 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Streatham Hill | Lambeth | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 1,492 | 61.15 | 0.87 | 37,842 | 103.24 | 1.43 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 1,477 | 60.61 | 0.83 | 37,306 | 102.08 | 1.38 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,489 | 60.69 | 0.83 | 36,039 | 98.37 | 1.30 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 1,538 | 62.09 | 0.80 | 32,822 | 89.57 | 1.13 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 1,480 | 59.18 | 0.79 | 31,641 | 86.38 | 1.12 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 1,604 | 62.33 | 0.93 | 28,631 | 77.28 | 1.13 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 1,465 | 55.66 | 0.77 | 31,799 | 85.15 | 1.15 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 1,597 | 60.30 | 0.80 | 34,551 | 92.06 | 1.21 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 1,532 | 57.98 | 0.84 | 34,355 | 91.60 | 1.29 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 1,581 | 60.10 | 0.97 | 33,984 | 90.39 | 1.41 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 499 | 18.97 | 1.02 | 10,805 | 28.66 | 1.50 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Streatham Hill Compared to Other Lambeth Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Tulse Hill | 2,187 | 77.52 | 27% more dangerous |
| West Norwood | 1,681 | 81.24 | 33% more dangerous |
| Streatham | 3,779 | 84.69 | 38% more dangerous |
| Clapham | 6,634 | 111.31 | 82% more dangerous |
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