Borough safety · Inner London · data through June 2026

How safe is Southwark, London?

Southwark, London covers 23 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Inner London index. Its median safety index is 55/100 — below the Inner London median of 59, so more is reported around a typical neighbourhood here than across Inner London. Dulwich Wood scores highest at 86/100; St George's lowest at 35/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 5 of 23 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 11 moderate, 7 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Southwark, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Dulwich Wood	86/100	Low risk	99
2 Peckham Rye	86/100	Low risk	114
3 Dulwich Village	85/100	Low risk	116
4 Dulwich Hill	80/100	Low risk	191
5 Goose Green	75/100	Low risk	263
6 Surrey Docks	68/100	Moderate	311
7 Champion Hill	66/100	Moderate	345
8 Rotherhithe	66/100	Moderate	343
9 North Bermondsey	60/100	Moderate	440
10 Old Kent Road	60/100	Moderate	435
11 Nunhead & Queen's Road	59/100	Moderate	468
12 Rye Lane	55/100	Moderate	564
13 South Bermondsey	55/100	Moderate	557
14 St Giles	53/100	Moderate	609
15 Camberwell Green	52/100	Moderate	598
16 Peckham	50/100	Moderate	672
17 Faraday	48/100	Elevated	725
18 Newington	45/100	Elevated	836
19 London Bridge & West Bermondsey	44/100	Elevated	873
20 North Walworth	40/100	Elevated	1,006
21 Borough & Bankside	38/100	Elevated	1,163
22 Chaucer	36/100	Elevated	1,261
23 St George's	35/100	Elevated	1,260

How Southwark compares across Inner London

Boroughs (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Greenwich	79/100	23
Wandsworth	75/100	22
Lewisham	70/100	19
Hammersmith and Fulham	61/100	21
Kensington and Chelsea	59/100	18
Lambeth	56/100	25
Hackney	56/100	21
Southwark (this page)	55/100	23
Camden	55/100	20
Tower Hamlets	55/100	20
Westminster	51/100	18
Islington	48/100	17

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Southwark, London?

Dulwich Wood has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Southwark, London, at 86/100 (low risk), from 99 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Peckham Rye (86/100) and Dulwich Village (85/100) follow.

Which neighbourhood in Southwark, London has the most reported crime?

St George's has the lowest index in Southwark, London, at 35/100, with 1,260 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. A low score means more is reported around that centre, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Southwark, London safe?

Across its 23 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 55/100, against 59 across Inner London. 5 rate low risk, 11 moderate, 7 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the borough — check the individual neighbourhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each police-recorded incident by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighbourhood centre, and normalises against national crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for Southwark, London is the median of its 23 neighbourhoods — the borough is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident published by the police (via data.police.uk, Open Government Licence) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre (ONS December 2025 ward centroids), and normalise onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Incident locations are anonymised by the police to nearby snap points, so the maps show streets rather than exact addresses. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighbourhoods within Inner London. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — London's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.