Total Crime Rate
125.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
71.1 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Chetwode Road area has the 5th highest crime rate of 47 local areas in Lower Kingswood, Tadworth & Walton , and the 57th highest crime rate of 444 local areas in Reigate and Banstead .
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 Chetwode Road (KT20 5PS) in the last 12 months was 125.5 per 1,000 residents and was 215.2% higher than the Lower Kingswood, Tadworth & Walton average (39.8 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 16 offences recorded. The least common crime was Drugs with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 17 (≈ 71.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 41.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 17.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Chetwode Road (KT20 5PS), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Merland Rise, where police recorded 36 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Sports/Recreation Area (21 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Tattenham Corner & Preston| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coxdean | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Trinity Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sports/Recreation Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sports/Recreation Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sports/Recreation Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sports/Recreation Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sports/Recreation Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sports/Recreation Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Trinity Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Broadfield Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Merland Green | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Broadfield Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Marbles Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Longmere Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Longmere Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Homefield Gardens | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Elm Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Elm Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Acres Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sports/Recreation Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Merland Green | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Merland Rise | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Kinloch Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Kinloch Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Kinloch Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Merland Rise | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Merland Rise | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coxdean | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coxdean | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Acres Gardens | Under investigation |
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