Yes, Wandsworth Town is a safe area by London standards, and a little safer than the borough it belongs to. Crime runs slightly below the Wandsworth average. Most of it is the everyday kind. Cars attract more attention than they do in most of the country. A busy, dense district with a shopping centre on the High Street is never going to post a village's numbers, and this one gets closer than its density would suggest.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 8,280 crimes in Wandsworth Town in the year to May 2026, and the published rate for the area over those twelve months is about 97 crimes per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 7% below the average for the London Borough of Wandsworth over the same period.
Wandsworth as a whole ran at about 104 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to May 2026, against Wandsworth Town's 97. The gap is real but modest. This is a district with slightly better numbers than its own borough, in a borough that is already one of London's calmer ones on this measure.
The area packs in about 15,650 people per square kilometre on average, with unemployment at about 3% and about 6% of households overcrowded. So it is crowded but comfortably off, with plenty of people sharing the same pavements and very few of them short of work. Southside on the High Street draws shoppers from well beyond the district, and the crime count takes in what happens to all of them, not only to residents.
By type, violence and sexual offences make up about 28% of recorded crime here, against about 35% across England and Wales. That category covers everything from serious assaults down to common assault without injury, and it is the biggest category almost everywhere, so a share well below the national one counts in the area's favour. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 20%, against 16% nationally. Vehicle crime is about 10% here against 5% nationally, and other theft about 9% against 7%. Shoplifting at about 7% (8% nationally) and public order at about 6% (7% nationally) both sit close to the national mix. About four in ten households here have no car, and the cars that are here get more attention than residents would like. Anyone who parks on the street should look up that street on the police's crime map and see whether the vehicle offences cluster along their road or a few roads away.
The charge rate answers a different question. The Metropolitan Police, which polices the whole of London, charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces. About 53% of cases across the force are closed with no suspect identified. Those are force-wide figures, made across the whole of London, and they describe what happens if you ever need the police. They say nothing about how often you will.
Wandsworth Town is one of the safer parts of a fairly safe borough. A car parked on the street is more exposed than its owner is.