Total Crime Rate
221.1 per 1,000
All offences · Apr 2025 - Mar 2026Violent Crime Rate
115.7 per 1,000
Apr 2025 - Mar 2026Culverley Road area has the 12th highest crime rate of 74 local areas in Catford South , and the 130th highest crime rate of 827 local areas in Lewisham .
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 Culverley Road (SE6 2LA) in the last 12 months was 221.1 per 1,000 residents and was 95.5% higher than the Catford South average (113.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 39 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Violence and sexual offences ( 34.5% YoY). The sharpest decline was Theft from the person ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 45 (≈ 115.7 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 25.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 24.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Culverley Road (SE6 2LA), the main crime hotspot is near Supermarket. Police recorded 151 crimes here, including 58 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Catford South| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Supermarket | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Mar 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bowness Road | — |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Plassy Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Engleheart Road | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Drugs | Gordon Mews | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gordon Mews | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gordon Mews | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gordon Mews | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Engleheart Road | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Other crime | Bowness Road | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Bowness Road | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Sambruck Mews | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Theft from the person | Plassy Road | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Vehicle crime | Sambruck Mews | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Mar 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sambruck Mews | — |
| Mar 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sambruck Mews | — |
| Mar 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sambruck Mews | — |
| Mar 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Sambruck Mews | — |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Mar 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Mar 2026 | Bicycle theft | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Plassy Road | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gordon Mews | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Theft from the person | Plassy Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Mar 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bargery Road | — |
| Mar 2026 | Robbery | Plassy Road | Under investigation |
| Mar 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Culverley Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Mar 2026 | Robbery | Plassy Road | Offender given a caution |
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