Clapham Park, Lambeth: Safety
Safety
Clapham Park is one of the quieter neighbourhoods in south London, with crime rates well below the UK average and falling steadily over the past two years.
In 2024, the neighbourhood recorded 81.8 crimes per 1,000 residents. By 2025 that had dropped to 78.3 — well below the London average of 204.5. For comparison, neighbouring areas like Brixton Acre Lane recorded more than twice the crime rate that year.
Anti-social behaviour is the most common category, but it's dropping too — down from 286 incidents in 2024 to 283 in 2025. Vehicle crime fell sharply, from 123 to 71 cases.
The trend here is clearly moving in the right direction.
Source: police-recorded crime for Clapham Park ward (Metropolitan Police Service, data.police.uk), Jan 2024–Aug 2026; residents from Census 2021. This summary may predate the latest data release; the table below has the current figures.
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Crime rate comparison
Crimes per 1,000 residents, Jan–Dec 2025. Clapham Park ward: Metropolitan Police Service data via data.police.uk; residents from Census 2021. Averages are for all wards in the area over the same months. Planna's safety index uses the latest 12 months instead, so it can differ.
2024
2025
Jan–Aug 2026
Clapham Park ward
Crimes/1,000 residents
75.1
Lower than
UK average (England, Wales & N. Ireland)
98.8
Lower than
London region average
130.2
Neighbouring wards
Lower than
Balham
130.7
Lower than
Brixton Acre Lane
151.6
Lower than
Streatham Hill West & Thornton
87
Lower than
Brixton Rush Common
94.6
Lower than
Clapham Common & Abbeville
85.8
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Types of Crime
Share of police-recorded crimes in Clapham Park ward and the London region average, Jan–Dec 2025.
This ward
Regional average
- Anti-social behaviour28%21%
- Violent offences25%24%
- Other theft10%9%
- Vehicle crime7%7%
- Criminal damage and arson6%5%
- Shoplifting4%8%
- Drugs4%5%
- Public order4%5%
- Burglary4%4%
- Robbery3%3%
- Bicycle theft2%1%
- Theft from the person1%8%
- Other crime1%1%
- Possession of weapons1%<1%
