Crime in SW16
How much crime is recorded in SW16, what kind, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
- Council
- Lambeth
- Region
- London
- Population
- 108,154 (2024)
SW16Postcode district · London
How safe is SW16
Higher-harm crime — violence, robbery, burglary, vehicle crime and weapons offences — runs at 31.8 offences per 1,000 people a year in SW16, broadly in line with the 31.1 average across England and Wales. That puts it in band 7 of 10 against all neighbourhoods.
Around the middle of neighbourhoods in England and Wales.
What crime is recorded
Offences per 1,000 people a year, at-risk population (residents plus people who work here; households for burglary).
Higher-harm crime over time
The rate has been broadly flat since 2022.
Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, resolved to neighbourhoods. Rates cover September 2025 to August 2026, the latest twelve months published.