Hundreds of sexual and violent crimes were reported in Merton for a single month, and Wimbledon Times can reveal the wards where these crimes were most flagged up to police.

The latest figures recorded by the Metropolitan Police show that 366 of the incidents were reported in the borough for the month of December 2018 (the most up to date figures).

The statistics are broken down into 14 categories, ranging from burglary, to possession of weapons, to drugs.

For the 20 different policing boroughs there is a clear difference when it comes to violent and sexual crime though.

Figge’s Marsh had the most of these particular crimes with 50, while Village saw the fewest with just 7.

But in terms of percentage it looked a little different.

Violent and sexual crimes in Ravensbury accounted for 34.8% of its total reported crimes, ranking at the top of the list.

Click on the photos above to browse through the total reported crime numbers for each Merton police ward borough for December and also where in those areas the offences took place.

Below is a breakdown of every police ward in Merton, ranked in order of the percentage, with total number of violent and sexual crimes also listed:

  1. Ravensbury – 23 – 34.8%
  2. Figge’s Marsh – 50 - 31.6%
  3. Dundonald – 13 – 30.2%
  4. Lavender Fields – 28 – 29.7%
  5. Longthornton – 22 – 28.2%
  6. St Helier – 20 – 26. 3%
  7. Lower Morden – 10 – 25.6%
  8. Cricket Green – 29 – 25.6%
  9. Trinity – 27 – 24. 5%
  10. West Barnes – 16 – 23.5%
  11. Pollards Hill – 15 – 23%
  12. Hillside – 16 – 21.6%
  13. Graveney – 12 – 19%
  14. Colliers Wood – 20 – 17.5%
  15. Merton Park – 15 – 17%
  16. Abbey – 18 – 16.9%
  17. Wimbledon Park – 9 – 16.6%
  18. Cannon Hill – 7 – 16.2%
  19. Raynes Park – 9 – 15%
  20. Village – 7 – 12.9%