Crime Statistics for Creekmouth, London, Barking and Dagenham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Creekmouth in September 2024. There were a total of 240 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Creekmouth, 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	55
Shoplifting	52
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Drugs	18
Vehicle Crime	17
Public Order	14
Other Theft	14
Robbery	12
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Crime	4
Burglary	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	3
All Crime	240

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 Creekmouth. 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 Creekmouth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Plumstead (1.96 miles)	1173
Custom House (2.48 miles)	1090
Wallend (1.75 miles)	896
Barking (1.96 miles)	815
North Woolwich (1.75 miles)	617
Abbey Wood (1.96 miles)	476
Thamesmead (1.39 miles)	441
Beckton (1.24 miles)	395
Castle Green (1.75 miles)	248
Creekmouth	240

Where are the most violent places near Creekmouth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Plumstead	407
Custom House	318
North Woolwich	228
Barking	225
Wallend	202
Abbey Wood	199
Thamesmead	123
Castle Green	98
Beckton	78
Creekmouth	55

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

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 Creekmouth 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 Creekmouth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Creekmouth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Creekmouth is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Thames	85
2	Abbey	74
3	Eastbury	73
4	Custom House	72
5	Plumstead	72
6	Woolwich Common	72
7	Gascoigne	71
8	Woolwich Riverside	69
9	Beckton	67
10	Glyndon	62
11	Thamesmead Moorings	59

Which road in Creekmouth has the highest level of crime?

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