Raynes Park is one of the safer corners of Merton, and by some way. Recorded crime runs about a third below the borough's rate. Burglary is a small slice of it. The thing most likely to go missing round here is the contents of a parked car, which tells you roughly what kind of trouble the place has.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 2,215 crimes in Raynes Park in the year to May 2026, and the published rate for the area is about 50 per 1,000 residents. That rate is roughly 35% below the average for the London Borough of Merton over the same twelve months.
Put the two numbers side by side and the gap is plain: about 50 crimes per 1,000 residents here against about 78 across Merton as a whole. The borough figure is the one that turns up in headlines about the area, and it describes a lot of streets that are a bus ride from this one.
Raynes Park is a busy, built-up place, averaging about 7,600 people per square kilometre across its postcodes. Unemployment is about 3% and about 5% of households are overcrowded. Those are the numbers of a dense suburb where most people have jobs and most homes have enough rooms, and they describe the setting the crime figures come from without explaining them.
The mix holds fewer surprises than the headline category suggests. Violence and sexual offences make up about 29% of recorded crime here, against about 35% across England and Wales, and that grouping covers everything from common assault without injury upwards, so it is the largest category almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour is about 21% here against 16% nationally. Vehicle crime is the one that stands out, at about 9% against 5% nationally, with shoplifting at about 9% against 8%, other theft at about 7% against 7% and burglary at about 5% against 4%. Most of those shares sit within a point or two of the national pattern. With the rate itself this low, a higher share of car crime means a larger slice of a smaller total. A house with no driveway leaves the car on the street every night, so ask how parking works on the specific road, because that is where the one above-average number in the mix will land.
What happens after a crime is reported is a separate question, and the answer comes from the whole force. The Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which places it 33rd of 42 forces in England and Wales over the year to May 2026. About 53% of its cases close with no suspect identified. That figure belongs to London's police force as a whole and says nothing particular about Raynes Park. It measures the odds of getting a stolen bike back, and in a safe suburb those odds are a smaller worry than they would be elsewhere.
Safety is one of the clear strengths of Raynes Park. Crime is low for Merton and low by any ordinary standard, and residents mostly have their parked cars to worry about.