Oval
WardNorth Lambeth. About 12,801 people in 0.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Oval live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Oval compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Oval safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Oval at a rate of 121.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 155.3 per 1,000 people across Lambeth.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 99 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Oval.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were shoplifting (387), violence and sexual offences (182) and anti-social behaviour (157).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Lambeth
These figures are published for the whole of Lambeth, not for each ward, so they describe all of Lambeth and not Oval alone. See Lambeth
Oval in brief
Oval had 12,436 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Oval live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Oval, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Oval, 5.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.