Wandle
WardNorth Merton. About 5,972 people in 0.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Wandle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wandle compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wandle safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wandle at a rate of 81.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 74.1 per 1,000 people across Merton.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 58 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wandle.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (152), anti-social behaviour (95) and other crime (80).
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 Merton
These figures are published for the whole of Merton, not for each ward, so they describe all of Merton and not Wandle alone. See Merton
Wandle in brief
Wandle had 5,608 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wandle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wandle, 95.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Wandle, 3.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.