Crime and Safety in Nine Elms, Wandsworth
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Nine Elms are violence and sexual offences, with 477 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 16. This is 4.6% higher than 2025's figure of 456 offences and a difference of 0.53 from 2025's crime rate of 15. Nine Elms's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 12 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 9% from 2025's figure of 11 crimes.
Nine Elms 2026 Crime Scorecard
5% lower, borough crime rate
London
12% lower, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Wandsworth is 5% lower than London and 12% lower than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Wandsworth Crime Rate Over Time
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Nine Elms Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Nine Elms 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 Nine Elms's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Nine Elms up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Nine Elms's 53 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
Nine Elms • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Nine Elms has a crime risk score of 606. This is based on analysis of 53 nearby areas within Nine Elms, 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 Nine Elms's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Nine Elms, crime risk scores are typically around 606, while in Wandsworth they are average 467.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 701 (572 for Wandsworth), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 758 (Wandsworth 642).
Trends in Crime Risk
Nine Elms
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 9% in Nine Elms'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 Nine Elms's crime risk score is up by 19%. 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, Nine Elms's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 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
Nine Elms
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
Nine Elms • 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 9.99 reports per 1,000 people in Nine Elms, which is 6.45 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 297 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 75 reports of Robbery in Nine Elms, resulting in a crime rate of 2.52 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.14.
The crime rate for Burglary is 1.30 times the national average at 4.06 reports per 1,000. This is from 122 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Nine Elms
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.
Theft From the Person offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 6.00 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 2.92 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 105% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.57 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 0.75 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 24% over this timeframe.
Public Order 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
Nine Elms
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
No significant decreases identified.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Nine Elms • 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 | 418 | 14.03 | 0.99 | 7,460 | 18.91 | 1.34 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 86 | 2.88 | 3.95 | 687 | 1.74 | 2.38 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 122 | 4.06 | 1.30 | 1,645 | 4.16 | 1.33 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 74 | 2.48 | 0.39 | 1,581 | 4.00 | 0.64 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 102 | 3.44 | 1.11 | 1,322 | 3.33 | 1.08 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 16 | 0.51 | 0.37 | 361 | 0.91 | 0.49 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 222 | 7.42 | 1.30 | 2,798 | 7.08 | 1.24 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 12 | 0.40 | 0.95 | 187 | 0.48 | 0.56 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 90 | 3.01 | 0.52 | 1,852 | 4.69 | 0.81 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 75 | 2.52 | 2.14 | 752 | 1.88 | 1.59 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 244 | 8.17 | 1.15 | 2,654 | 6.72 | 0.94 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 297 | 9.99 | 6.45 | 1,305 | 3.31 | 2.14 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 78 | 2.64 | 0.61 | 2,920 | 7.39 | 1.72 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 477 | 15.95 | 0.52 | 8,406 | 21.29 | 0.70 | 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 | 1,895 | 63.47 | 0.89 | 26,470 | 66.98 | 0.93 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 1,591 | 63.64 | 0.87 | 24,909 | 66.45 | 0.90 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 1,352 | 62.41 | 0.86 | 26,809 | 73.80 | 0.98 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 822 | 41.89 | 0.55 | 23,631 | 65.65 | 0.83 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 740 | 41.38 | 0.57 | 24,450 | 68.54 | 0.89 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 687 | 40.25 | 0.62 | 24,015 | 66.78 | 0.97 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 669 | 56.86 | 0.81 | 23,928 | 66.93 | 0.90 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 689 | 69.72 | 0.96 | 25,329 | 71.67 | 0.94 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 698 | 75.98 | 1.14 | 25,265 | 71.84 | 1.01 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 698 | 82.15 | 1.36 | 24,120 | 69.02 | 1.08 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 246 | 29.62 | 1.57 | 7,421 | 21.26 | 1.11 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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