Well, I find it quite useful. I was looking for a house in stockwell today, which is pretty close to Brixton (the accepted dodgy area), but the place seems quite safe with mothers walking their children all around…

Looking at buying in Mottingham SE9 Please could you advise on Crime rates in this area.

This is all wrong

chazzie SE20 said:
“……. was thinking of moving to mottingham SE9, some parts can be very nice but most of it is full of council estates with a big minority of racist white groups.”

So crime is low there.

Who would of thought?

I have lived in Islington for 25yrs, and have never been a victim of crime.
I grew up around some of the roughest places within Islington, and although I witnessed crime, I dont think Islington has a particulary high crime rate. I think that London is made up of certain groups of people, and  a mix of culture produces crime. 
I work in Walworth (Elephant & Castle) which i feel is a lot less safe then any other part of London.
Places where crime is the highest, are the places with less entertainment.
If London enusred there was enough going on, such as more entertainment facilities and stuff for young people to do, or if they increased street parole officers, or if people were given “after hours” free travel then I think crime would dramatically decrease.
Kids then wouldnt feel the need to be walking around the street looking for things to do and attacking people for fun “happy slapping” for example. It would also prevent young men and women walking home from nights out, because they spent their bus fare, preventing them from being victims of muggings and sexual assault. If people in London werent so quick to promote their designer goods or plasma teles then their houses wouldnt be robbed. Keep your stuff to yourself and KEEP VIGILANT!!!

what a big load of bulls***… don’t trust this if you are looking for a safe place in london… the only reasons the areas mentioned as safe are “safer” is because there are less people living there so there are obviously less crimes in the statistics. It is actually more dangerous to live in any area outside of london than it is to live in Islington in the west of finsbury park (crouch end/muswell hill) or central london in euston/warren street area… they are the safest places in london, even safer than most areas in west london… hackney depends on where you go but most areas are amazing and pretty safe as well, not as safe as islington but god, you are in london… theres 200.000 people living in hackney and of those max. 50 get killed in hackney in a year and more than half of them are some gang related crimes that no one gets involved in unless you wanna start dealing with drugs in some gangs territory so wth!?!?! london is one of the safest cities in my opinion if you look at the population and compare it to its size, the worst thing i ever saw here was a car crash, the worst thing i ever saw when i used to live on the country in spain was stabbings and 20 children beating up 1 kid in front of the school so stop with this statistic shit and open your eyes people, there is no such thing as a bad area or a good area in terms of safety, its all about how you treat people and its about how you educate your children so they dont beat up and bully other kids and form gangs… and if you are still looking for a safe place anyways take islington, central london (all full of CCTV anyways, the crimes reported there are people stealing some tourists bag) barking & dagenham if you don’t mind being 1 hour away from the city… just stay away from leyton, leytonstone and the train stations around that area and stay away from seven sisters and most areas in south london (i don’t know which ones are nice and which ones arent but all i have seen wasnt very nice apart from clapham junction)

hope this helps if you look for flats and stop thinking hackney or islington are bad places to live, they are the best locations in london!

crime statistics are expressed as a proportion of the population, so it makes no difference whether there is a large/small population.

I’ve lived in quite a few parts of London. I grew up in Islington and have friends all over Islington. There are good and bad parts BUT the part I lived in was Clerkenwell and that is a very safe area. Other parts could be more dodgy where estates and gang culture are more widespread.

Now i’m not surprised Hackney is in this list although the time frame is 07/08 in regards to the crime stats. There are alot of new builds in Hackney plus my friend lives in an estate around Hackney and they’ve knocked it down, which will be replaces with new buildings and he can move back in. Therefore they are trying to improve the area. My grandparents also lived around the Homerton end of Hackney, and although it can be dodgy walking around late at night they’ve never been a victim of crime. Some parts of Hackney are very run down with very few people at night hence perfect place for robbery/ sexual assault. Therefore best for lone females to steer clear at night!

I’ve also lived in Newham- around East Ham. It’s mostly an Asian area and seemed ok. Although I wouldn’t feel safe walking the back streets late at night again due to how remote it is. If something happened your on your own, plus i witnessed alot of car crime from my window. There’s plenty of side roads/ streets where the cops don’t usually drive through and the criminals know this

I’ve lived in 2 parts of Dagenham over the years and I must say, I’d seriously recommend this area for any young mum and family. There are very few estates and I barely ever see hoodie gangs around. Plenty of space and less people compared to Central London. 

I’ve worked in South London as a delivery driver for a number of years so I know the borough pretty well. People talk about the high crime rate in Peckham and yes u have to be aware of your surroundings but it’s not as bad as people make out. The estates can be dodgy BUT in all the yrs i’ve been in and out of estates sometimes as late as midnight, i’ve rarely seen any gangs hanging around. 

BUT some of my colleagues have gotten robbed at gun point in the estates. 

Camberwell always seemed dodgy and I’d say Peckham is better. Although there are some nice parts of Camberwell with expensive houses. 

Try going up north to places like queens park, harrow road and Lisson Grove. You just live in the posh south

i would say acton is a bit on the dodgy side aswell

You have not experienced any. Because you were the perpetrator.

lool newham is on every high crime list

I studied and worked in London for 2 years. I lived(Iam spanish) in Spain,mostly in a northen small town, but not only (I lived in Madrid,Barcelona, Alicante or Oviedo) I feal much more safe in Spain than London. I can assure you that I was witness of more than a car crash in London. At Baker street station, a group of families(3 father/grandpa and his kids) beat 2 teenagers. related with a football issue (teenagers wears in blue, and families in red.sorry I dont know nothing about foatball). the 2 teens says 2-0, after that, one of the adults hit then. The rest of the familie kicked the guys when there were in ground. Is just one of many things that Ive watched in London (in all big citys happend things like). If you never saw anything bad, you are really lucky, in 2 years I saw figths, vandalism (break car windows, burn urban furniture….)assault and threatening with a screwdriver….not talking only about pubs and nightclubs surrondings in south london

After lived in Croydon (New Addington and Purley) and Hammersmith (Arround tube station), surprised by the stats of Hammersmith. I know the fame of Croydon, I think this place isnt as bad as people described, but Allways thinks on Hammersmith as a bit posh place