Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
Crime in SE8 3
The SE8 3 postcode sector, in the SE (South East London) postcode area, with most records published by Metropolitan Police.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,307 street-crime records for SE8 3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 12.2% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 102.8 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 127.5 for Metropolitan Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
1,307
Share of SE8
29.1%
Year-on-year
-12.2%
SE8 3 holds 29.1% of the 4,494 records assigned to SE8 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
126
October 2025
103
November 2025
119
December 2025
101
January 2026
105
February 2026
86
March 2026
122
April 2026
83
May 2026
100
June 2026
110
July 2026
122
August 2026
130
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
SE8 3
102.8
Metropolitan Police
127.5
1,307 records and 12,713 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Category mix compared
Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Metropolitan Police.
Category
SE8 3
SE8
Force
Violence and sexual offences
28.4%
26.7%
25.3%
Anti-social behaviour
18.1%
19.5%
20.9%
Shoplifting
11.9%
9.1%
8.4%
Other theft
6.7%
7.0%
8.8%
Theft from the person
6.4%
7.4%
6.4%
Public order
6.3%
6.3%
5.3%
Drugs
5.3%
5.2%
4.3%
Burglary
5.2%
5.2%
4.2%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for SE8 3 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,011
2022
1,188
2023
1,320
2024
1,306
2025
1,451
2026 (part year)
858
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Covers 100.0% of the 12,713 Census 2021 residents of SE8 3.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 13.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 13.7% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
13%2
28%3
16%4
22%5
0%6
0%7
9%8
14%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
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