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London borough · E09000008

Croydon

390,708 residents at Census 2021 across 229 LSOAs and 28 wards. Official figures from the loaded datasets, generated 14 Sept 2026.

Residents390,708Census 2021 usual residents, sum of LSOAs
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents85.0Metropolitan Police, latest 12 months
Recorded crime, change on previous 12 months-2.6%Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade incidents per 1,000 residents per year14.19London Fire Brigade, five years
Median first-appliance attendance4:57London Fire Brigade mobilisations, five years (min:sec)
Injury collisions per 1,000 residents per year2.50DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Fatal or serious collisions785DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Average house price£394,736UK HPI, latest published month
House prices, annual change-1.9%UK HPI, latest published month
Average private rent£1,581ONS Price Index of Private Rents, all bedrooms, latest published month; borough-level whole private rental stock
Median sale price£430,000HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard transactions in the latest loaded 12-month window

Recorded crime

33,219 offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 34,103 in the previous 12 months (-2.6%). Rate: 85.0 per 1,000 residents, from 229 LSOAs with data under the home-office-2019 classification.

Monthly recorded crime in Croydon, 24 months: 2843, 3033, 2901, 2888, 2769, 2485, 2841, 2721, 2963, 2830, 3015, 2814, 2665, 2617, 2568, 2540, 2780, 2484, 2850, 2759, 3048, 2997, 3177, 2734
Category (12 months)Offences
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON11,450
THEFT7,438
VEHICLE OFFENCES3,751
ARSON AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE2,569
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES2,252
DRUG OFFENCES2,146
BURGLARY1,707
ROBBERY1,024
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY504
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS378

Fire brigade incidents and response

27,727 incidents attended between August 2021 and August 2026, including 3,717 fires of which 1,174 were in dwellings. First appliance attendance: median 4:57, 90th percentile 8:02 (min:sec, 26,641 observations).

Annual fire brigade incidents in Croydon: 2097, 5290, 5474, 5597, 5679, 3590
Incident groupIncidents
False Alarm12,221
Special Service11,782
Fire3,717
NULL7

Road collisions

4,881 police-reported personal-injury collisions from 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025: 13 fatal, 772 serious and 4,096 slight.

House prices

UK House Price Index for June 2026: average price £394,736, -1.9% over the year, — sales in the month as published.

UK HPI average price in Croydon, trailing year: 403993, 403104, 398216, 396270, 398179, 396710, 393210, 389127, 391303, 395971, 395259, 394736

Private rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents for July 2026: average monthly rent £1,581 across the whole private rental stock, +3.3% over the year.

Final PRMS context for 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30: published median £1,250 from 1,820 sampled rents. PRMS is discontinued and is not a current trend series.

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Wards in Croydon

Current ONS wards with the same factual measures. LSOA-published figures use the documented best-fit assignment; Price Paid sales use each transaction postcode's current ward.

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JSON for Croydon · JSON for all boroughs · MCP tool get_borough_profile("Croydon") · npx civicdata borough "Croydon"

Caveats

  • Borough figures aggregate every loaded record in the borough. Rates per 1,000 residents divide by the sum of Census 2021 LSOA usual-resident populations, which can differ slightly from ONS published borough totals because of statistical disclosure control.
  • Rates use resident population only. Boroughs with large daytime, visitor or commuter populations (for example Westminster, Camden and the City of London) record events involving many people who do not live there.
  • Fire and road-collision periods are the five years ending at the latest loaded data; crime compares the latest 12 source months with the preceding 12. Road collisions are STATS19 personal-injury collisions assigned through the collision LSOA, with a nearest-postcode fallback within 250 metres.
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