Hundreds of sexual and violent crimes were reported in Merton for a single month, and the wards where these crimes were most flagged up to police have been revealed.

The latest figures recorded by the Metropolitan Police show that 404 of the incidents were reported in the borough for the month of July (the most up to date figures).

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

For the 20 different policing boroughs there is a clear difference when it comes to violent and sexual crime though.

Ravensbury and Trinity wards had the most of these particular crimes with 34, while Cannon Hill saw the fewest with 10.

But in terms of percentage it looked a little different.

Violent and sexual crimes in Lower Morden accounted for 41% of its total reported crimes, ranking at the top of the list.

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

  1. Lower Morden – 16 – 41%
  2. Raynes Park – 20 – 35%
  3. St Helier - 31 – 32.6%
  4. Ravensbury – 34 – 29.8%
  5. Cricket Green - 30 – 27.3%
  6. Lavender Fields – 27 – 26.7%
  7. Trinity – 34 – 26.4%
  8. Longthornton – 19 – 25%
  9. Pollards Hill – 20 – 24.4%
  10. Dundonald – 16 – 22.5%
  11. Hillside – 16 – 22.2%
  12. Figge's Marsh – 27 – 22.1%
  13. Abbey – 18 – 21.7%
  14. Wimbledon Park – 14 – 20.9%
  15. Graveney – 12 – 20.7%
  16. Colliers Wood – 18 – 20.5%
  17. Cannon Hill – 10 – 20.4%
  18. West Barnes – 12 – 17.9%
  19. Merton Park – 16 – 17.8%
  20. Village – 14 – 16.1%