Crime and Safety in Bankside, Southwark
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in Bankside is theft from the person, with 539 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 19. This is 14% lower than 2025's figure of 624 offences and a difference of 3.14 from 2025's crime rate of 22. Bankside's least common crime is other crime, with 2 offences recorded in 2026, the same as 2025's figure of 2 crimes.
Bankside 2026 Crime Scorecard
44% lower, borough crime rate
London
29% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Southwark is 44% lower than London and 29% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Southwark Crime Rate Over Time
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Bankside Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Bankside 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 Bankside's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Bankside up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Bankside's 10 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
Bankside • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Bankside has a crime risk score of 588. This is based on analysis of 10 nearby areas within Bankside, 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 Bankside's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Bankside, crime risk scores are typically around 588, while in Southwark they are average 637.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 707 (707 for Southwark), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 704 (Southwark 758).
Trends in Crime Risk
Bankside
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 an increase of 50% in Bankside'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 Bankside's crime risk score is up by 95%. 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, Bankside's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 3.6%, 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
Bankside
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
Bankside • 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.
Theft From the Person offences have a crime rate of 19 reports per 1,000 people in Bankside, which is 12 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 539 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 73 reports of Robbery in Bankside, resulting in a crime rate of 2.62 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.22.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 0.88 times the national average at 0.07 reports per 1,000. This is from 2 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Bankside
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.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.58 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.34 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 71% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.20 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.14 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 43% over this timeframe.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 14 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 11 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 25% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Bankside
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.11 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.50 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 78% over this timeframe.
Drugs offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.30 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.05 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 71% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Bankside • 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 | 152 | 5.46 | 0.39 | 9,829 | 22.85 | 1.62 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 58 | 2.10 | 3.09 | 1,083 | 2.51 | 3.44 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 63 | 2.27 | 0.73 | 2,363 | 5.50 | 1.76 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 26 | 0.93 | 0.18 | 1,868 | 4.34 | 0.69 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 19 | 0.68 | 0.33 | 1,910 | 4.44 | 1.44 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 2 | 0.08 | 0.26 | 410 | 0.96 | 0.52 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 358 | 12.86 | 2.26 | 5,032 | 11.69 | 2.05 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 2 | 0.07 | 0.88 | 313 | 0.73 | 0.86 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 39 | 1.39 | 0.29 | 2,132 | 4.97 | 0.86 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 73 | 2.62 | 2.22 | 1,929 | 4.50 | 3.81 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 51 | 1.83 | 0.26 | 2,655 | 6.17 | 0.87 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 539 | 19.34 | 12 | 7,000 | 16.27 | 10 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 13 | 0.49 | 0.15 | 2,375 | 5.52 | 1.28 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 180 | 6.45 | 0.21 | 10,185 | 23.68 | 0.78 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 1,423 | 51.11 | 0.78 | 39,255 | 91.28 | 1.27 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 1,470 | 50.27 | 0.72 | 39,196 | 92.58 | 1.25 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,434 | 50.43 | 0.72 | 37,556 | 89.47 | 1.19 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 1,237 | 45.53 | 0.61 | 33,943 | 81.34 | 1.03 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 1,022 | 37.63 | 0.52 | 31,440 | 75.64 | 0.98 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 804 | 27.63 | 0.43 | 30,126 | 71.59 | 1.04 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 1,075 | 33.34 | 0.47 | 34,529 | 81.32 | 1.10 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 1,250 | 37.18 | 0.52 | 36,454 | 85.93 | 1.13 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 985 | 29.45 | 0.44 | 33,431 | 79.24 | 1.11 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 932 | 27.82 | 0.45 | 32,158 | 76.64 | 1.20 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 283 | 8.42 | 0.46 | 9,961 | 23.75 | 1.25 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Bankside Compared to Other Southwark Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
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