Crime Statistics for Blackfen, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blackfen in September 2024. There were a total of 195 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Blackfen, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime59
Anti Social Behaviour36
Vehicle Crime27
Other Theft19
Criminal Damage Arson15
Public Order13
Drugs7
Shoplifting7
Other Crime4
Burglary2
Theft From The Person2
Robbery2
Possession Of Weapons1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime195

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Blackfen. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.



Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Blackfen

We've taken the ten nearest places to Blackfen and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Blackfen has more crime than other surrounding areas.

LocationCrime Incidents
Shooters Hill (1.75 miles)265
Bexley (0.88 miles)262
Plumstead Common (1.86 miles)259
Bexleyheath (1.96 miles)219
Avery Hill (0.62 miles)216
Sidcup (1.39 miles)212
Blackfen195
Falconwood (0.62 miles)171
New Eltham (1.39 miles)130
Longlands (1.12 miles)113

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Where are the most violent places near Blackfen?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Blackfen and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

LocationViolent Incidents
Shooters Hill122
Bexleyheath98
Sidcup91
Plumstead Common90
Longlands66
Avery Hill65
Bexley62
Blackfen59
Falconwood53
New Eltham44

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Blackfen?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Blackfen to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Blackfen compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Blackfen and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Blackfen is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Mottingham and Chislehurst North83
2Eltham South63
3Coldharbour and New Eltham63
4Shooters Hill60
5Eltham North48
6Sidcup42
7Falconwood & Welling41
8Crook Log32
9Blackfen & Lamorbey28
10Blendon & Penhill28
11Longlands27

Which road in Blackfen has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Blackfen with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.

Last updated: September 2024
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