Crime and Safety in Lonesome, Merton
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Lonesome are violence and sexual offences, with 728 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 29. This is 3.9% higher than 2025's figure of 701 offences and a difference of 1.05 from 2025's crime rate of 28. Lonesome's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 8 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 20% from 2025's figure of 10 crimes.
Lonesome 2026 Crime Scorecard
20% higher, borough crime rate
London
11% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Merton is 20% higher than London and 11% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Merton Crime Rate Over Time
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Lonesome Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Lonesome 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 Lonesome's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Lonesome up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Lonesome's 194 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
Lonesome • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Lonesome has a crime risk score of 589. This is based on analysis of 194 nearby areas within Lonesome, 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 Lonesome's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Lonesome, crime risk scores are typically around 589, while in Merton they are average 450.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 665 (544 for Merton), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 723 (Merton 603).
Trends in Crime Risk
Lonesome
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 8% in Lonesome'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 Lonesome's crime risk score is up by 16%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
Over the last year, Lonesome's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 15%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Lonesome
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
Lonesome • 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 2.28 reports per 1,000 people in Lonesome, which is 1.93 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 57 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 178 reports of Vehicle Crime in Lonesome, resulting in a crime rate of 7.01 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.63.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 1.20 times the national average at 0.84 reports per 1,000. This is from 21 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Lonesome
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, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.98 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.82 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 20% 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
Lonesome
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.09 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.76 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 43% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Lonesome • 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 | 408 | 16.07 | 1.14 | 3,609 | 14.55 | 1.03 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 8 | 0.32 | 1.10 | 232 | 0.91 | 1.25 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 85 | 3.36 | 1.07 | 718 | 2.89 | 0.92 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 114 | 4.48 | 0.71 | 989 | 3.98 | 0.63 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 86 | 3.40 | 1.10 | 685 | 2.78 | 0.90 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 33 | 1.32 | 0.71 | 212 | 0.85 | 0.46 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 108 | 4.24 | 0.75 | 1,160 | 4.65 | 0.82 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 21 | 0.84 | 1.20 | 112 | 0.44 | 0.52 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 121 | 4.76 | 0.82 | 962 | 3.87 | 0.67 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 57 | 2.28 | 1.93 | 342 | 1.37 | 1.16 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 44 | 1.76 | 0.25 | 1,303 | 5.27 | 0.74 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 32 | 1.28 | 0.91 | 327 | 1.31 | 0.85 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 178 | 7.01 | 1.63 | 1,266 | 5.08 | 1.18 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 728 | 28.67 | 0.94 | 4,867 | 19.61 | 0.65 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Lonesome | Merton | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 1,615 | 63.72 | 0.89 | 13,175 | 53.01 | 0.74 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 1,499 | 59.58 | 0.81 | 13,677 | 57.44 | 0.78 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,370 | 54.83 | 0.74 | 13,781 | 59.52 | 0.79 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 1,470 | 59.38 | 0.77 | 13,398 | 58.86 | 0.74 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 1,423 | 57.60 | 0.77 | 13,078 | 57.69 | 0.75 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 1,585 | 64.15 | 0.95 | 12,720 | 55.84 | 0.81 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 1,414 | 57.34 | 0.80 | 13,464 | 58.81 | 0.79 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 1,514 | 61.68 | 0.84 | 13,967 | 60.97 | 0.80 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 1,391 | 56.97 | 0.81 | 13,625 | 59.55 | 0.84 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 1,333 | 54.27 | 0.88 | 12,803 | 55.90 | 0.87 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 493 | 20.03 | 1.08 | 4,211 | 18.39 | 0.96 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Lonesome Compared to Other Merton Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Collier's Wood | 1,750 | 63.90 | 0.28% more dangerous |
| Mitcham Junction | 279 | 64.59 | 1.4% more dangerous |
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