East Dulwich Car Crime Hits 37 in a Month in Goose Green

Police recorded 37 vehicle crimes in Goose Green ward in September 2026. That is more than double the ward’s highest monthly figure in the previous 14 months, which was 18 in July.

Goose Green ward covers part of East Dulwich, including Goose Green itself. Across all 11 wards that make up Dulwich, Peckham and Camberwell, vehicle crime rose from 122 in August to 180 in September. That is below July’s 195, but well above the 103 recorded in September 2025.

The figures come from the police.uk street-level crime data, published about two months after the month it covers. We counted every crime inside the Metropolitan Police’s own boundary for each ward, the same method as our August analysis.

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Three wards drove the rise

Goose Green, Rye Lane and St Giles together went from 36 in August to 93 in September. Dulwich Village, which hit a 14-month high of 22 in August, fell back to 13.

Where the Goose Green cases were

Police.uk places each crime “on or near” a street or landmark rather than at an exact address. The places with more than two of Goose Green’s 37 cases were:

• Holmes Close: 4
• Rodwell Road: 3
• Pellatt Road: 3
• Landcroft Road: 3

The rest were spread across other streets, with no more than two on any one. In Rye Lane ward, no location had more than two.

Across the 11 wards, 162 of the 180 September cases are listed with the outcome “Investigation complete; no suspect identified”. Thirteen are still under investigation.

Vehicle crime in police.uk covers theft of a vehicle, theft from a vehicle and interference with one. The data does not say which of the three each case was.

Other crime in September

Comparing September 2026 with September 2025 across the 11 wards:

In total, crime and anti-social behaviour rose from 1,284 reports to 1,418, an increase of 10%. Shoplifting, drugs and robbery fell.

Criminal damage and arson is left out of those totals. It dropped from more than 50 a month to single figures in May 2026 across these wards, with no explanation from police.uk, as we noted in August. September had 5 against 82 a year earlier, so we treat it as a gap in the Met’s data rather than a fall.

What it means for you

• If your car was broken into or tampered with, report it to the Met online or on 101, even if nothing was taken. These figures only count what was reported.
• Check your own street. Put your postcode into police.uk for a map of reported crime and the contact details for your ward’s Safer Neighbourhood Team.
• Keep the car empty, including charging cables, sat-nav mounts and bags left on seats.
• If you park on a residential street, our guide to parking in Dulwich covers controlled zones and permit rules.

How we did this: we downloaded every crime record for September 2025, August 2026 and September 2026 from the police.uk API for each of the 11 wards, using the Met’s published boundary for each ward, and every month from July 2025 for Goose Green’s vehicle crime. Our August totals matched the figures we published in October. The totals include anti-social behaviour, which police.uk publishes alongside crime. October’s data is due in December.

Sources

• police.uk street-level crime data, Metropolitan Police, downloaded 9 November 2026.
• police.uk neighbourhood boundaries for the Met’s ward areas.