North Cheam
WardNorth west Sutton. About 11,461 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 3% of people in North Cheam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How North Cheam compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is North Cheam safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in North Cheam at a rate of 61.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 77.3 per 1,000 people across Sutton.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 50 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in North Cheam.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (178), anti-social behaviour (141) and shoplifting (81).
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 Sutton
These figures are published for the whole of Sutton, not for each ward, so they describe all of Sutton and not North Cheam alone. See Sutton
North Cheam in brief
North Cheam had 11,164 usual residents at the census.
About 3% of people in North Cheam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In North Cheam, 93.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In North Cheam, 2.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.