Borough safety · Inner London · data through August 2026

How safe is Wandsworth, London?

Wandsworth, London covers 22 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Inner London index. Its median safety index is 75/100 — above the Inner London median of 60, so a typical neighbourhood here reads safer than a typical one across Inner London. Roehampton scores highest at 87/100; Falconbrook lowest at 58/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 13 of 22 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 9 moderate, 0 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Wandsworth, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Roehampton	87/100	Low risk	99
2 West Hill	87/100	Low risk	108
3 West Putney	85/100	Low risk	118
4 Thamesfield	80/100	Low risk	208
5 Furzedown	78/100	Low risk	204
6 Northcote	78/100	Low risk	229
7 South Balham	78/100	Low risk	220
8 Wandsworth Common	78/100	Low risk	203
9 East Putney	77/100	Low risk	212
10 Southfields	77/100	Low risk	231
11 Balham	75/100	Low risk	273
12 Trinity	75/100	Low risk	238
13 Wandle	75/100	Low risk	252
14 Battersea Park	71/100	Moderate	293
15 Tooting Bec	71/100	Moderate	315
16 Wandsworth Town	68/100	Moderate	349
17 Tooting Broadway	66/100	Moderate	365
18 Nine Elms	64/100	Moderate	402
19 Shaftesbury & Queenstown	63/100	Moderate	399
20 Lavender	62/100	Moderate	470
21 St Mary's	61/100	Moderate	446
22 Falconbrook	58/100	Moderate	525

How Wandsworth compares across Inner London

Boroughs (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Greenwich	80/100	23
Wandsworth (this page)	75/100	22
Lewisham	74/100	19
Hammersmith and Fulham	62/100	21
Kensington and Chelsea	60/100	18
Hackney	59/100	21
Lambeth	58/100	25
Southwark	57/100	23
Camden	57/100	20
Tower Hamlets	54/100	20
Islington	50/100	17
Westminster	48/100	18

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Wandsworth, London?

Roehampton has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Wandsworth, London, at 87/100 (low risk), from 99 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. West Hill (87/100) and West Putney (85/100) follow.

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

Falconbrook has the lowest index in Wandsworth, London, at 58/100, with 525 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 Wandsworth, London safe?

Across its 22 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 75/100, against 60 across Inner London. 13 rate low risk, 9 moderate, 0 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 Wandsworth, London is the median of its 22 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.