Telegraph Hill
WardNorth west Lewisham. About 16,224 people in 1.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 84% of people in Telegraph Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Telegraph Hill compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Telegraph Hill safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Telegraph Hill at a rate of 78.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 122.7 per 1,000 people across Lewisham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 108 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Telegraph Hill.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (381), anti-social behaviour (239) and other crime (214).
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 Lewisham
These figures are published for the whole of Lewisham, not for each ward, so they describe all of Lewisham and not Telegraph Hill alone. See Lewisham
Telegraph Hill in brief
Telegraph Hill had 16,916 usual residents at the census.
About 84% of people in Telegraph Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Telegraph Hill, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Telegraph Hill, 6.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.