The worst parts of Croydon for violent and sexual crime have been revealed.
The latest figures recorded by the Metropolitan Police show that 768 incidents of violent and sexual crime were reported in Croydon for the month of November.
The statistics are broken down into 14 categories, ranging from burglary, to possession of weapons, to drugs.
For the 27 different policing boroughs there is a clear difference when it comes to violent and sexual crime.
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Croydon Town centre had the most crimes with 98, while Coulsdon West saw the fewest with just 7.
But in terms of percentage it it looked a lot different
Violent and sexual crimes in Bensham Manor accounted for 35.7% of its total reported crimes, ranking at the top of the list.
Click on the photos above to browse through the total reported crime numbers for each Croydon borough for November and also where in the borough those offences took place.
Below is a breakdown of every police ward in Croydon, ranked in order of the percentage, with total number of violent and sexual crimes also listed:
- Bensham Manor – 34 – 35.7%
- Addiscombe – 32 – 33.6%
- Selhurst – 61 – 31.9%
- Woodside – 35 – 30.9%
- Upper Norwood – 18 – 30.5%
- Ashburton – 28 – 29.7%
- Fieldway – 22 – 28.9%
- New Addington – 23 – 27.7%
- Thornton Heath – 40 – 27.2%
- Coulsdon East – 11 – 26.8%
- Heathfield – 20 – 26.6%
- Fairfield – 44 – 26.5%
- Croydon Town Centre – 98 – 25.5%
- West Thornton – 48 – 23.6%
- Shirley – 17 – 22%
- Broad Green – 62 – 21.3%
- Croham – 20 – 20.8%
- Kenley – 11 – 20%
- Waddon – 34 – 20%
- Purley – 19 – 19.5
- Crystal Palace – 17 – 18%
- South Norwood – 25 – 17.6%
- Crystal Palace Triangle – 16 - 17.2%
- Norbury – 17 – 17%
- Selsdon and Ballards – 9 – 15.5%
- Coulsdon West – 7 – 9.8%
- Sanderstead – Data unavailable
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