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London borough · E09000023

Lewisham

300,548 residents at Census 2021 across 175 LSOAs and 19 wards. Official figures from the loaded datasets, generated 14 Sept 2026.

Residents300,548Census 2021 usual residents, sum of LSOAs
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents98.9Metropolitan Police, latest 12 months
Recorded crime, change on previous 12 months+4.2%Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade incidents per 1,000 residents per year16.13London Fire Brigade, five years
Median first-appliance attendance4:54London Fire Brigade mobilisations, five years (min:sec)
Injury collisions per 1,000 residents per year2.47DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Fatal or serious collisions594DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Average house price£491,259UK HPI, latest published month
House prices, annual change+0.6%UK HPI, latest published month
Average private rent£1,828ONS Price Index of Private Rents, all bedrooms, latest published month; borough-level whole private rental stock
Median sale price£475,000HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard transactions in the latest loaded 12-month window

Recorded crime

29,722 offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 28,515 in the previous 12 months (+4.2%). Rate: 98.9 per 1,000 residents, from 175 LSOAs with data under the home-office-2019 classification.

Monthly recorded crime in Lewisham, 24 months: 2416, 2513, 2437, 2300, 2294, 2142, 2275, 2384, 2529, 2367, 2473, 2385, 2265, 2485, 2402, 2249, 2308, 2184, 2433, 2421, 2732, 2714, 2914, 2615
Category (12 months)Offences
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON10,245
THEFT7,318
VEHICLE OFFENCES2,653
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES2,166
ARSON AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE2,020
DRUG OFFENCES1,743
BURGLARY1,630
ROBBERY1,123
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY438
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS386

Fire brigade incidents and response

24,236 incidents attended between August 2021 and August 2026, including 2,735 fires of which 1,026 were in dwellings. First appliance attendance: median 4:54, 90th percentile 7:43 (min:sec, 23,130 observations).

Annual fire brigade incidents in Lewisham: 1791, 4495, 4608, 5056, 5147, 3139
Incident groupIncidents
False Alarm10,871
Special Service10,625
Fire2,735
NULL5

Road collisions

3,718 police-reported personal-injury collisions from 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025: 5 fatal, 589 serious and 3,124 slight.

House prices

UK House Price Index for June 2026: average price £491,259, +0.6% over the year, — sales in the month as published.

UK HPI average price in Lewisham, trailing year: 485196, 495057, 497999, 500757, 496134, 492547, 494065, 491745, 492857, 489449, 499014, 491259

Private rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents for July 2026: average monthly rent £1,828 across the whole private rental stock, +2.4% over the year.

Final PRMS context for 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30: published median £1,425 from 1,790 sampled rents. PRMS is discontinued and is not a current trend series.

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Wards in Lewisham

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

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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