More than 150 burglaries were reported in Merton for a single month, and the wards where these crimes were most flagged up to police have now been revealed.

The latest figures recorded by the Metropolitan Police show that 180 of the incidents were reported in the borough for the month of January (the most up to date figures).

The statistics are broken down into 14 categories, ranging from arson, to possession of weapons, to drugs.

For the 20 different policing boroughs there is a clear difference when it comes to burglary though.

Raynes Park had the most of these particular crimes with 17, while Pollards Hill saw the fewest with just 2.

But in terms of percentage it looked a little different.

Burglaries in Hillside accounted for 28.8% of its total reported crimes, ranking at the top of the list.

Click on the photos above to browse through the total reported crime numbers for each Merton police ward borough for January and also where in those areas the offences took place.

Below is a breakdown of every police ward in Merton, ranked in order of the percentage, with total number of burglaries also listed:

  1. Hillside – 15 – 28.8%
  2. Lower Morden – 9 – 25.7%
  3. Cannon Hill – 6 – 20%
  4. Raynes Park – 17 – 18.4%
  5. Wimbledon Park - 10 - 16.6%
  6. Dundonald – 9 – 15.7%
  7. Village – 11 – 15%
  8. Merton Park – 9 – 14.7%
  9. Lavender Fields – 11 – 14.1%
  10. Ravensbury – 12 – 13.4%
  11. Abbey – 12 – 13.1%
  12. West Barnes – 9 – 12.3%
  13. Longthornton – 6 – 10.1%
  14. Colliers Wood – 8 – 8.9%
  15. St Helier – 7 – 8.9%
  16. Cricket Green – 10 – 8.2%
  17. Graveney – 4 – 8%
  18. Figge’s Marsh – 9 – 7.1%
  19. Trinity – 4 – 3.8%
  20. Pollards Hill – 2 – 3.1%