Crime and Safety in Kingston Vale, Merton
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Kingston Vale are violence and sexual offences, with 49 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 47. This is 3.9% lower than 2025's figure of 51 offences and a difference of 1.98 from 2025's crime rate of 49. Kingston Vale's least common crime is other crime, with 0 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 0% from 2025's figure of 1 crime.
Kingston Vale 2026 Crime Scorecard
134% higher, borough crime rate
London
72% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Merton is 134% higher than London and 72% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Merton Crime Rate Over Time
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Kingston Vale Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Kingston Vale 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 Kingston Vale's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Kingston Vale up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Kingston Vale's 54 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
Kingston Vale • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Kingston Vale has a crime risk score of 595. This is based on analysis of 54 nearby areas within Kingston Vale, 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 Kingston Vale's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Kingston Vale, crime risk scores are typically around 595, while in Merton they are average 450.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 528 (544 for Merton), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 538 (Merton 603).
Trends in Crime Risk
Kingston Vale
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 11% in Kingston Vale'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.
The five-year trend may be static; no significant trend was identified in Kingston Vale's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Kingston Vale's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 5%, indicating that the risk profile is going down. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Kingston Vale
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
Kingston Vale • 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.
Robbery offences have a crime rate of 4.79 reports per 1,000 people in Kingston Vale, which is 17 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 5 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 1 report of Possession of Weapons in Kingston Vale, resulting in a crime rate of 0.95 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 14.
The crime rate for Theft From the Person is 9.57 times the national average at 3.83 reports per 1,000. This is from 4 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Kingston Vale
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.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.56 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 1.00 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 56% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Kingston Vale
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 4.20 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 1.84 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Kingston Vale • 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 | 15 | 14.32 | 1.31 | 3,609 | 14.55 | 1.03 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 1 | 0.95 | 16 | 232 | 0.91 | 1.25 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 4 | 3.82 | 3.64 | 718 | 2.89 | 0.92 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 8 | 7.67 | 2.05 | 989 | 3.98 | 0.63 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 7 | 6.70 | 5.23 | 685 | 2.78 | 0.90 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | - | - | - | 212 | 0.85 | 0.46 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 17 | 16.24 | 3.76 | 1,160 | 4.65 | 0.82 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 1 | 0.95 | 14 | 112 | 0.44 | 0.52 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 8 | 7.63 | 2.73 | 962 | 3.87 | 0.67 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 5 | 4.79 | 17 | 342 | 1.37 | 1.16 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 22 | 20.98 | 4.97 | 1,303 | 5.27 | 0.74 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 4 | 3.83 | 9.57 | 327 | 1.31 | 0.85 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 4 | 3.83 | 2.64 | 1,266 | 5.08 | 1.18 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 49 | 46.75 | 1.69 | 4,867 | 19.61 | 0.65 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Kingston Vale | Merton | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 130 | 124.14 | 2.62 | 13,175 | 53.01 | 0.74 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 134 | 129.25 | 2.50 | 13,677 | 57.44 | 0.78 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 137 | 128.16 | 2.42 | 13,781 | 59.52 | 0.79 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 116 | 111.49 | 2.26 | 13,398 | 58.86 | 0.74 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 118 | 116.46 | 2.40 | 13,078 | 57.69 | 0.75 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 84 | 88.07 | 2.38 | 12,720 | 55.84 | 0.81 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 59 | 63.18 | 2.20 | 13,464 | 58.81 | 0.79 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 84 | 92.66 | 2.58 | 13,967 | 60.97 | 0.80 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 77 | 88.53 | 2.07 | 13,625 | 59.55 | 0.84 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 52 | 61.45 | 2.47 | 12,803 | 55.90 | 0.87 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 15 | 17.83 | 2.88 | 4,211 | 18.39 | 0.96 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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