The area’s infection rate in the week leading up to July 14 was 707.8 per 100,000 of the population – according to government figures.
But by and large, families in the Wandsworth town feel safe, and have blamed the infection rate spike on overpopulation and young people socialising in the neighbourhood.
Balham’s Covid infection rate has since slipped from the top spot last week and has been replaced with Lambeth’s Brixton Hill West.
