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London borough · E09000028

Southwark

307,631 residents at Census 2021 across 174 LSOAs and 23 wards. Official figures from the loaded datasets, generated 14 Sept 2026.

Residents307,631Census 2021 usual residents, sum of LSOAs
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents130.4Metropolitan Police, latest 12 months
Recorded crime, change on previous 12 months+0.5%Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade incidents per 1,000 residents per year18.58London Fire Brigade, five years
Median first-appliance attendance4:46London Fire Brigade mobilisations, five years (min:sec)
Injury collisions per 1,000 residents per year3.16DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Fatal or serious collisions953DfT STATS19, five calendar years
Average house price£582,473UK HPI, latest published month
House prices, annual change+2.2%UK HPI, latest published month
Average private rent£2,431ONS Price Index of Private Rents, all bedrooms, latest published month; borough-level whole private rental stock
Median sale price£530,000HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard transactions in the latest loaded 12-month window

Recorded crime

40,108 offences in the 12 months to August 2026, against 39,902 in the previous 12 months (+0.5%). Rate: 130.4 per 1,000 residents, from 173 LSOAs with data under the home-office-2019 classification.

Monthly recorded crime in Southwark, 24 months: 3411, 3801, 3458, 3329, 3096, 2875, 3325, 3100, 3417, 3414, 3372, 3304, 3127, 3330, 3235, 3141, 3006, 2944, 3271, 3292, 3381, 3651, 4067, 3663
Category (12 months)Offences
THEFT17,124
VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON9,316
VEHICLE OFFENCES2,473
BURGLARY2,305
ROBBERY2,090
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES2,084
ARSON AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE1,978
DRUG OFFENCES1,940
MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY409
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS389

Fire brigade incidents and response

28,572 incidents attended between August 2021 and August 2026, including 3,347 fires of which 1,148 were in dwellings. First appliance attendance: median 4:46, 90th percentile 7:19 (min:sec, 26,485 observations).

Annual fire brigade incidents in Southwark: 2143, 5169, 5412, 5972, 5995, 3881
Incident groupIncidents
False Alarm12,728
Special Service12,491
Fire3,347
NULL6

Road collisions

4,857 police-reported personal-injury collisions from 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025: 17 fatal, 936 serious and 3,904 slight.

House prices

UK House Price Index for June 2026: average price £582,473, +2.2% over the year, — sales in the month as published.

UK HPI average price in Southwark, trailing year: 572209, 581329, 590051, 594118, 592725, 590488, 582054, 574304, 569158, 577741, 577665, 582473

Private rents

ONS Price Index of Private Rents for July 2026: average monthly rent £2,431 across the whole private rental stock, +3.8% over the year.

Final PRMS context for 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30: published median £1,820 from 2,450 sampled rents. PRMS is discontinued and is not a current trend series.

How the rent figures work

Wards in Southwark

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

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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