Crime and Safety in Carshalton on the Hill, Sutton
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Carshalton on the Hill are violence and sexual offences, with 94 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 18. This is 16% lower than 2025's figure of 112 offences and a difference of 3.36 from 2025's crime rate of 21. Carshalton on the Hill's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 0 offences recorded in 2026.
Carshalton on the Hill 2026 Crime Scorecard
35% lower, borough crime rate
London
47% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Sutton is 35% lower than London and 47% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Sutton Crime Rate Over Time
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Carshalton on the Hill Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Carshalton on the Hill 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 on the Hill's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Carshalton on the Hill up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Carshalton on the Hill's 170 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 on the Hill • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Carshalton on the Hill has a crime risk score of 366. This is based on analysis of 170 nearby areas within Carshalton on the Hill, 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 on the Hill's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Carshalton on the Hill, crime risk scores are typically around 366, while in Sutton they are average 445.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 445 (523 for Sutton), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 508 (Sutton 568).
Trends in Crime Risk
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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 12% in Carshalton on the Hill'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 Carshalton on the Hill's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Carshalton on the Hill'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 on the Hill
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 on the Hill • 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 0.75 reports per 1,000 people in Carshalton on the Hill, which is 3.75 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 4 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 2 reports of Possession of Weapons in Carshalton on the Hill, resulting in a crime rate of 0.38 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.71.
The crime rate for Burglary is 1.57 times the national average at 4.11 reports per 1,000. This is from 22 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
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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, 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
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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 - for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.30 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a near-complete decrease over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending downwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.56 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.38 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 47% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Carshalton on the Hill • 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 | 49 | 9.14 | 0.65 | 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 | 22 | 4.11 | 1.57 | 820 | 3.62 | 1.16 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 8 | 1.50 | 0.71 | 968 | 4.27 | 0.68 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 7 | 1.32 | 0.87 | 673 | 2.96 | 0.96 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 4 | 0.76 | 1.25 | 231 | 1.02 | 0.55 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 9 | 1.69 | 0.70 | 936 | 4.11 | 0.72 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 2 | 0.38 | 2.71 | 93 | 0.43 | 0.51 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 23 | 4.29 | 1.13 | 1,144 | 5.04 | 0.87 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 4 | 0.75 | 3.75 | 283 | 1.23 | 1.04 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 6 | 1.12 | 0.46 | 1,411 | 6.22 | 0.87 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 2 | 0.38 | 1.52 | 223 | 0.99 | 0.64 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 24 | 4.48 | 1.04 | 1,256 | 5.55 | 1.29 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 94 | 17.52 | 0.58 | 5,197 | 22.89 | 0.75 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
Carshalton on the Hill | Sutton | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 205 | 38.30 | 0.75 | 13,320 | 58.71 | 0.82 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 272 | 51.27 | 0.87 | 12,937 | 57.22 | 0.77 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 228 | 43.40 | 0.73 | 13,032 | 58.16 | 0.77 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 211 | 40.35 | 0.66 | 13,202 | 59.65 | 0.75 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 236 | 44.87 | 0.69 | 13,153 | 59.60 | 0.78 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 240 | 45.73 | 0.83 | 11,868 | 53.73 | 0.78 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 227 | 43.22 | 0.78 | 13,309 | 60.52 | 0.82 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 230 | 43.77 | 0.78 | 12,506 | 57.48 | 0.75 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 192 | 36.49 | 0.73 | 11,941 | 55.50 | 0.78 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 169 | 32.08 | 0.65 | 10,771 | 50.48 | 0.79 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 61 | 11.59 | 0.76 | 3,715 | 17.45 | 0.92 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Carshalton on the Hill Compared to Other Sutton Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Carshalton Beeches | 106 | 27.56 | 28% safer |
| Little Woodcote | 126 | 44.55 | 16% more dangerous |
| Wallington | 1,314 | 56.99 | 49% more dangerous |
| Carshalton | 750 | 59.75 | 56% more dangerous |
| Sutton | 3,664 | 65.03 | 70% more dangerous |
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