Total Crime Rate
389.7 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
95.2 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Pepper Street area has the 21st highest crime rate of 54 local areas in Borough & Bankside , and the 85th highest crime rate of 769 local areas in Southwark .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Pepper Street (SE1 0EW) in the last 12 months was 389.7 per 1,000 residents and was 14.2% lower than the Borough & Bankside average (454.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Theft from the person with 100 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 2 cases , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Shoplifting ( 10.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Vehicle crime ( -55.6% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 76 (≈ 95.2 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -19.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -40.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Pepper Street (SE1 0EW), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Theatre/Concert Hall, where police recorded 169 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Police Station (60 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Borough & Bankside| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bittern Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Weller Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Collinson Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Collinson Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Collinson Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Collinson Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Collinson Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Collinson Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Collinson Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Collinson Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Collinson Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Collinson Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Collinson Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Police Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Police Station | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Weller Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Weller Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Police Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Theatre/Concert Hall | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Theatre/Concert Hall | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Bicycle theft | Sawyer Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Stones End Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Shopping Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Sturge Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Weller Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Sturge Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Stones End Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Emerson Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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