Crime and Safety in Carshalton Beeches, Sutton
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Carshalton Beeches are violence and sexual offences, with 32 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 8. This is 14% higher than 2025's figure of 28 offences and a difference of 1.04 from 2025's crime rate of 7. Carshalton Beeches's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 0 offences recorded in 2026.
Carshalton Beeches 2026 Crime Scorecard
53% lower, borough crime rate
London
62% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Sutton is 53% lower than London and 62% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Sutton Crime Rate Over Time
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Carshalton Beeches Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Carshalton Beeches 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 Carshalton Beeches's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Carshalton Beeches up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Carshalton Beeches's 121 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
Carshalton Beeches • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Carshalton Beeches has a crime risk score of 255. This is based on analysis of 121 nearby areas within Carshalton Beeches, 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 Carshalton Beeches's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Carshalton Beeches, crime risk scores are typically around 255, while in Sutton they are average 445.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 395 (523 for Sutton), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 508 (Sutton 568).
Trends in Crime Risk
Carshalton Beeches
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 14% in Carshalton Beeches'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 Carshalton Beeches's crime risk score is up by 6%. 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, Carshalton Beeches's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 10%, 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
Carshalton Beeches
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
Carshalton Beeches • 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.
Burglary offences have a crime rate of 7.80 reports per 1,000 people in Carshalton Beeches, which is 3.79 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 30 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 23 reports of Vehicle Crime in Carshalton Beeches, resulting in a crime rate of 5.98 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.52.
The crime rate for Drugs is 1.00 times the national average at 0.26 reports per 1,000. This is from 1 crime report reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Carshalton Beeches
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, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.49 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 1.75 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 15% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Carshalton Beeches
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 4.33 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.87 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 398% over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Carshalton Beeches • 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 | 17 | 4.42 | 0.47 | 3,207 | 14.11 | 1.00 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | - | - | - | 85 | 0.38 | 0.52 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 30 | 7.80 | 3.79 | 820 | 3.62 | 1.16 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 7 | 1.82 | 0.67 | 968 | 4.27 | 0.68 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 1 | 0.26 | 1.00 | 673 | 2.96 | 0.96 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 1 | 0.26 | 1.73 | 231 | 1.02 | 0.55 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 5 | 1.30 | 0.67 | 936 | 4.11 | 0.72 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | - | - | - | 93 | 0.43 | 0.51 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 3 | 0.78 | 0.90 | 1,144 | 5.04 | 0.87 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | - | - | - | 283 | 1.23 | 1.04 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 4 | 1.04 | 0.58 | 1,411 | 6.22 | 0.87 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | - | - | - | 223 | 0.99 | 0.64 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 23 | 5.98 | 1.52 | 1,256 | 5.55 | 1.29 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 32 | 8.32 | 0.33 | 5,197 | 22.89 | 0.75 | 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 | 106 | 27.56 | 0.70 | 13,320 | 58.71 | 0.82 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 122 | 31.68 | 0.64 | 12,937 | 57.22 | 0.77 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 97 | 25.15 | 0.58 | 13,032 | 58.16 | 0.77 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 105 | 27.36 | 0.64 | 13,202 | 59.65 | 0.75 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 97 | 25.18 | 0.54 | 13,153 | 59.60 | 0.78 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 86 | 22.31 | 0.63 | 11,868 | 53.73 | 0.78 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 125 | 32.23 | 0.63 | 13,309 | 60.52 | 0.82 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 98 | 25.32 | 0.57 | 12,506 | 57.48 | 0.75 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 115 | 29.63 | 0.68 | 11,941 | 55.50 | 0.78 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 122 | 31.35 | 0.91 | 10,771 | 50.48 | 0.79 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 35 | 9.01 | 0.99 | 3,715 | 17.45 | 0.92 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Carshalton Beeches Compared to Other Sutton Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Carshalton on the Hill | 205 | 38.30 | 39% more dangerous |
| Little Woodcote | 126 | 44.55 | 62% more dangerous |
| Wallington | 1,314 | 56.99 | 107% more dangerous |
| Carshalton | 750 | 59.75 | 117% more dangerous |
| Sutton | 3,664 | 65.03 | 136% more dangerous |
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