Crime Statistics for Shortlands, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shortlands in September 2024. There were a total of 163 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 Shortlands, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	37
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Vehicle Crime	21
Shoplifting	17
Other Theft	12
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Public Order	10
Drugs	8
Theft From The Person	7
Burglary	3
Robbery	3
Bicycle Theft	3
Other Crime	2
All Crime	163

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 Shortlands. 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 Shortlands

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Downham (1.86 miles)	709
Plaistow (1.39 miles)	400
Bromley Park (0.62 miles)	326
Beckenham (1.39 miles)	273
Upper Elmers End (1.96 miles)	265
Eden Park (1.86 miles)	258
Bickley (1.96 miles)	173
Shortlands	163
Park Langley (0.88 miles)	159
Bromley Common (1.39 miles)	157

Where are the most violent places near Shortlands?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Downham	201
Plaistow	91
Upper Elmers End	78
Bromley Park	70
Eden Park	69
Beckenham	62
Park Langley	56
Bickley	50
Bromley Common	38
Shortlands	37

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

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 Shortlands 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 Shortlands compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bellingham	76
2	Downham	73
3	Plaistow and Sundridge	66
4	Copers Cope	51
5	Shirley South	50
6	Bromley Town	46
7	Kelsey and Eden Park	46
8	Clock House	42
9	Bickley	30
10	West Wickham	20
11	Shortlands	15

Which road in Shortlands has the highest level of crime?

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