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London borough · E09000024

Merton

215,192 residents at Census 2021 across 127 LSOAs and 20 wards. Official figures from the loaded datasets, generated 14 Sept 2026.

Residents215,192Census 2021 usual residents, sum of LSOAs
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents59.1Metropolitan Police, latest 12 months
Recorded crime, change on previous 12 months-5.9%Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade incidents per 1,000 residents per year10.28London Fire Brigade, five years
Median first-appliance attendance5:09London Fire Brigade mobilisations, five years (min:sec)
Injury collisions per 1,000 residents per year1.98DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Fatal or serious collisions403DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Average house price£612,681UK HPI, latest published month
House prices, annual change+0.5%UK HPI, latest published month
Average private rent£2,153ONS Price Index of Private Rents, all bedrooms, latest published month; borough-level whole private rental stock
Median sale price£540,000HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard transactions in the latest loaded 12-month window

Recorded crime

12,713 offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 13,508 in the previous 12 months (-5.9%). Rate: 59.1 per 1,000 residents, from 126 LSOAs with data under the home-office-2019 classification.

Monthly recorded crime in Merton, 24 months: 1201, 1175, 1153, 1024, 1100, 963, 1203, 1160, 1135, 1123, 1204, 1067, 997, 1060, 1070, 1112, 1014, 947, 1038, 1072, 1109, 1070, 1102, 1122
Category (12 months)Offences
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON4,417
THEFT3,047
VEHICLE OFFENCES1,403
ARSON AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE937
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES857
BURGLARY698
DRUG OFFENCES668
ROBBERY339
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY241
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS106

Fire brigade incidents and response

11,056 incidents attended between August 2021 and August 2026, including 1,676 fires of which 449 were in dwellings. First appliance attendance: median 5:09, 90th percentile 8:05 (min:sec, 10,605 observations).

Annual fire brigade incidents in Merton: 779, 2136, 2133, 2340, 2241, 1427
Incident groupIncidents
False Alarm5,234
Special Service4,144
Fire1,676
NULL2

Road collisions

2,129 police-reported personal-injury collisions from 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025: 9 fatal, 394 serious and 1,726 slight.

House prices

UK House Price Index for June 2026: average price £612,681, +0.5% over the year, — sales in the month as published.

UK HPI average price in Merton, trailing year: 621418, 623179, 624634, 615509, 622136, 614511, 619461, 613767, 612269, 604013, 597772, 612681

Private rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents for July 2026: average monthly rent £2,153 across the whole private rental stock, +4.6% over the year.

Final PRMS context for 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30: published median £1,600 from 620 sampled rents. PRMS is discontinued and is not a current trend series.

How the rent figures work

Wards in Merton

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

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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