Total Crime Rate
113.3 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
33.2 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Vale Road area has the 6th highest crime rate of 22 local areas in Longthornton , and the 120th highest crime rate of 580 local areas in Merton .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Vale Road (CR4 1NN) in the last 12 months was 113.3 per 1,000 residents and was 48.1% higher than the Longthornton average (76.5 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Anti-social behaviour with 11 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , up 100.0% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 250.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -18.2% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 12 (≈ 33.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -7.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -11.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Vale Road (CR4 1NN), the main crime hotspot is near Wide Way. Police recorded 26 crimes here, including 11 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Pollards Hill| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sunnymead Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lexden Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wide Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Abbotts Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Beverley Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Vale Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Vale Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Robinhood Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Robinhood Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Robinhood Lane | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Manor Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Robinhood Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Castleton Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Manor Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Manor Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Wide Way | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Manor Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Beverley Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Holly Way | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Franklin Crescent | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Franklin Crescent | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Franklin Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Franklin Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Greenwood Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Lexden Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Greenwood Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Lexden Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Lexden Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Wide Way | Under investigation |
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