Total Crime Rate
326.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
83.7 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Underhill Road area has the 4th highest crime rate of 83 local areas in Dulwich Hill , and the 118th highest crime rate of 769 local areas in Southwark .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Underhill Road (SE22 0BT) in the last 12 months was 326.0 per 1,000 residents and was 243.0% higher than the Dulwich Hill average (95.0 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Anti-social behaviour with 30 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Possession of weapons ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -52.2% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 19 (≈ 83.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -34.5% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -5.0% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Underhill Road (SE22 0BT), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Streamline Mews, where police recorded 56 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Charles Talbot Mews (25 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Dulwich Wood| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Overhill Road | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Streamline Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lapse Wood Walk | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Charles Talbot Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Charles Talbot Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Charles Talbot Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Highwood Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Highwood Close | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Overhill Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Streamline Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lapse Wood Walk | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Streamline Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Belvoir Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Overhill Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Overhill Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Overhill Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Overhill Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Overhill Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Overhill Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Streamline Mews | — |
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