Total Crime Rate
140.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
56.1 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Elms Road area has the 10th highest crime rate of 43 local areas in Clapham Common & Abbeville , and the 281st highest crime rate of 768 local areas in Lambeth .
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 Elms Road (SW4 9EP) in the last 12 months was 140.2 per 1,000 residents and was 38.6% higher than the Clapham Common & Abbeville average (101.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 17 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , up 100.0% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Violence and sexual offences ( 112.5% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 18 (≈ 56.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 100.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 139.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Elms Road (SW4 9EP), the main crime hotspot is near Trouville Road. Police recorded 74 crimes here, including 27 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Clapham Common & Abbeville| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Klea Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Bateman Mews | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Trouville Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Trouville Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Trouville Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Trouville Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Trouville Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Shandon Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Robbery | Shandon Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Shandon Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Leppoc Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Leppoc Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Crescent Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Bateman Mews | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Caldervale Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Trouville Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Shandon Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Mandalay Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Mandalay Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Mandalay Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Rathmell Drive | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Rathmell Drive | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Narbonne Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Narbonne Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Tableer Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Abbeville Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Abbeville Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Abbeville Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Trouville Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Abbeville Road | Under investigation |
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