Crime and Safety in Surrey Quays, Southwark
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in Surrey Quays is theft from the person, with 175 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 25. This is 22% higher than 2025's figure of 144 offences and a difference of 4.51 from 2025's crime rate of 21. Surrey Quays's least common crime is other crime, with 3 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 50% from 2025's figure of 6 crimes.
Surrey Quays 2026 Crime Scorecard
8% higher, borough crime rate
London
37% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Southwark is 8% higher than London and 37% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Southwark Crime Rate Over Time
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Surrey Quays Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Surrey Quays 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 Surrey Quays's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Surrey Quays up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Surrey Quays's 66 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
Surrey Quays • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Surrey Quays has a crime risk score of 636. This is based on analysis of 66 nearby areas within Surrey Quays, 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 Surrey Quays's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Surrey Quays, crime risk scores are typically around 636, while in Southwark they are average 637.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 764 (707 for Southwark), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 815 (Southwark 758).
Trends in Crime Risk
Surrey Quays
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.
No trend could be found in Surrey Quays's crime risk scores over the last 10 years, and the trend may well be static.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Surrey Quays's crime risk score is up by 18%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Over the last year, Surrey Quays's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 7%, 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
Surrey Quays
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
Surrey Quays • 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 25 reports per 1,000 people in Surrey Quays, which is 16 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 175 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 38 reports of Robbery in Surrey Quays, resulting in a crime rate of 5.48 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 4.64.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 3.27 times the national average at 0.72 reports per 1,000. This is from 5 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Surrey Quays
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.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.52 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.38 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 83% over this timeframe.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 17 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 29 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 42% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.66 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 2.32 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 28% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Surrey Quays
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.77 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.32 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 141% over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.54 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.70 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 23% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Surrey Quays • 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 | 219 | 31.66 | 2.24 | 9,829 | 22.85 | 1.62 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 26 | 3.74 | 5.58 | 1,083 | 2.51 | 3.44 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 27 | 3.87 | 1.35 | 2,363 | 5.50 | 1.76 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 30 | 4.32 | 0.69 | 1,868 | 4.34 | 0.69 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 36 | 5.18 | 1.68 | 1,910 | 4.44 | 1.44 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 3 | 0.43 | 1.39 | 410 | 0.96 | 0.52 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 53 | 7.66 | 1.35 | 5,032 | 11.69 | 2.05 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 5 | 0.72 | 3.27 | 313 | 0.73 | 0.86 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 47 | 6.78 | 1.27 | 2,132 | 4.97 | 0.86 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 38 | 5.48 | 4.64 | 1,929 | 4.50 | 3.81 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 31 | 4.46 | 0.69 | 2,655 | 6.17 | 0.87 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 175 | 25.32 | 16 | 7,000 | 16.27 | 10 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 54 | 7.81 | 1.82 | 2,375 | 5.52 | 1.28 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 159 | 22.95 | 0.75 | 10,185 | 23.68 | 0.78 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Surrey Quays | Southwark | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 684 | 98.72 | 1.44 | 39,255 | 91.28 | 1.27 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 674 | 98.49 | 1.39 | 39,196 | 92.58 | 1.25 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 797 | 116.74 | 1.63 | 37,556 | 89.47 | 1.19 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 833 | 122.26 | 1.60 | 33,943 | 81.34 | 1.03 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 847 | 126.26 | 1.71 | 31,440 | 75.64 | 0.98 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 930 | 138.01 | 2.06 | 30,126 | 71.59 | 1.04 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 913 | 137.15 | 1.88 | 34,529 | 81.32 | 1.10 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 922 | 143.75 | 1.92 | 36,454 | 85.93 | 1.13 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 867 | 138.26 | 2.06 | 33,431 | 79.24 | 1.11 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 837 | 137.38 | 2.21 | 32,158 | 76.64 | 1.20 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 274 | 45.62 | 2.46 | 9,961 | 23.75 | 1.25 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Surrey Quays Compared to Other Southwark Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Rotherhithe | 2,352 | 77.69 | 21% safer |
| South Bermondsey | 1,856 | 88.41 | 10% safer |
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