Crime and Safety in Little Woodcote, Sutton
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Little Woodcote are violence and sexual offences, with 50 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 18. This is 3.8% lower than 2025's figure of 52 offences and a difference of 0.72 from 2025's crime rate of 18. Little Woodcote's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 0 offences recorded in 2026.
Little Woodcote 2026 Crime Scorecard
24% lower, borough crime rate
London
38% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Sutton is 24% lower than London and 38% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Sutton Crime Rate Over Time
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Little Woodcote Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Little Woodcote 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 Little Woodcote's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Little Woodcote up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Little Woodcote's 259 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
Little Woodcote • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Little Woodcote has a crime risk score of 284. This is based on analysis of 259 nearby areas within Little Woodcote, 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 Little Woodcote's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Little Woodcote, crime risk scores are typically around 284, while in Sutton they are average 445.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 381 (523 for Sutton), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 470 (Sutton 568).
Trends in Crime Risk
Little Woodcote
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 34% in Little Woodcote'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 Little Woodcote's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Little Woodcote's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 8%, 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
Little Woodcote
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
Little Woodcote • 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.
Possession of Weapons offences have a crime rate of 0.70 reports per 1,000 people in Little Woodcote, which is 4.67 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 2 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 2 reports of Robbery in Little Woodcote, resulting in a crime rate of 0.70 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 3.50.
The crime rate for Drugs is 2.68 times the national average at 4.24 reports per 1,000. This is from 12 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Little Woodcote
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.
No significant increases identified.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Little Woodcote
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.65 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.62 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 4.8% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Little Woodcote • 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 | 30 | 10.63 | 0.75 | 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 | 11 | 3.89 | 2.48 | 820 | 3.62 | 1.16 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 16 | 5.65 | 1.35 | 968 | 4.27 | 0.68 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 12 | 4.24 | 2.68 | 673 | 2.96 | 0.96 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 4 | 1.40 | 2.33 | 231 | 1.02 | 0.55 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 4 | 1.41 | 1.04 | 936 | 4.11 | 0.72 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 2 | 0.70 | 4.67 | 93 | 0.43 | 0.51 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 8 | 2.82 | 1.13 | 1,144 | 5.04 | 0.87 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.70 | 3.50 | 283 | 1.23 | 1.04 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | - | - | - | 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 | 17 | 6.01 | 2.41 | 1,256 | 5.55 | 1.29 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 50 | 17.73 | 0.58 | 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 | 126 | 44.55 | 0.99 | 13,320 | 58.71 | 0.82 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 118 | 44.12 | 0.91 | 12,937 | 57.22 | 0.77 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 109 | 42.34 | 0.95 | 13,032 | 58.16 | 0.77 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 108 | 42.14 | 0.80 | 13,202 | 59.65 | 0.75 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 124 | 50.31 | 1.03 | 13,153 | 59.60 | 0.78 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 132 | 52.52 | 1.10 | 11,868 | 53.73 | 0.78 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 104 | 41.07 | 0.85 | 13,309 | 60.52 | 0.82 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 121 | 48.30 | 0.98 | 12,506 | 57.48 | 0.75 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 110 | 43.97 | 0.96 | 11,941 | 55.50 | 0.78 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 124 | 48.94 | 1.21 | 10,771 | 50.48 | 0.79 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 15 | 5.89 | 1.13 | 3,715 | 17.45 | 0.92 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Little Woodcote 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 | 38% safer |
| Carshalton on the Hill | 205 | 38.30 | 14% safer |
| Beddington South | 995 | 68.74 | 54% more dangerous |
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