Crime Statistics for North Woolwich, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for North Woolwich in September 2024. There were a total of 750 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 North Woolwich, 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 Crime228
Anti Social Behaviour149
Other Theft62
Drugs54
Vehicle Crime53
Public Order51
Criminal Damage Arson30
Robbery26
Burglary24
Other Crime21
Theft From The Person19
Shoplifting18
Bicycle Theft8
Possession Of Weapons7
All Crime750

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 North Woolwich. 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 North Woolwich

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Plumstead (0.88 miles)1173
Custom House (1.75 miles)1090
North Woolwich617
Abbey Wood (1.96 miles)476
Charlton (1.39 miles)448
New Charlton (1.96 miles)439
Beckton (1.24 miles)395
Plumstead Common (1.75 miles)347
Shooters Hill (1.86 miles)297
Creekmouth (1.75 miles)240

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Where are the most violent places near North Woolwich?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Plumstead407
Custom House318
North Woolwich228
Abbey Wood199
New Charlton182
Charlton161
Shooters Hill88
Plumstead Common84
Beckton78
Creekmouth55

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

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 North Woolwich 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 North Woolwich compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to North Woolwich and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.North Woolwich is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Kidbrooke with Hornfair79
2Custom House72
3Plumstead72
4Woolwich Common72
5Charlton70
6Woolwich Riverside69
7Blackheath Westcombe68
8Beckton67
9Glyndon62
10Shooters Hill60
11Eltham North48

Which road in North Woolwich has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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