Total Crime Rate
124.1 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
69.3 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Offley Road area has the 29th lowest crime rate of 78 local areas in Kennington , and the 326th highest crime rate of 768 local areas in Lambeth .
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 Offley Road (SW9 0LS) in the last 12 months was 124.1 per 1,000 residents and was 0.1% lower than the Kennington average (124.2 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 19 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , up 100.0% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Bicycle theft ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 19 (≈ 69.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 72.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -69.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Offley Road (SW9 0LS), the main crime hotspot is near Harleyford Street. Police recorded 65 crimes here, including 32 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Oval| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bowling Green Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Mandela Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Minerva Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bowling Green Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bowling Green Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bowling Green Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Magee Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Magee Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Bicycle theft | Mandela Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Mowll Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Minerva Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Harleyford Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Harleyford Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Harleyford Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Harleyford Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Harleyford Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Harleyford Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Southey Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Southey Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Minerva Close | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bowling Green Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Southey Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Chryssell Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Oval | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Oval | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oval | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oval | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Offley Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Bicycle theft | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Conference/Exhibition Centre | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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