Faraday
WardNorth Southwark. About 12,414 people in 1.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Faraday live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Faraday compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Faraday safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Faraday at a rate of 214.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 157.8 per 1,000 people across Southwark.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 323 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Faraday.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (709), violence and sexual offences (623) and shoplifting (566).
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 Southwark
These figures are published for the whole of Southwark, not for each ward, so they describe all of Southwark and not Faraday alone. See Southwark
Faraday in brief
Faraday had 12,466 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Faraday live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Faraday, 89.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Faraday, 7.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.