Crime Statistics for Barnehurst, London, Bexley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barnehurst in September 2024. There were a total of 575 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 Barnehurst, 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 Crime127
Anti Social Behaviour112
Shoplifting62
Criminal Damage Arson58
Vehicle Crime50
Public Order38
Drugs24
Other Theft22
Burglary20
Theft From The Person20
Other Crime16
Robbery16
Bicycle Theft8
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime575

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 Barnehurst. 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 Barnehurst

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Barnehurst549
Colyers (1.34 miles)386
Barnes Cray (1.24 miles)294
Bexleyheath (1.24 miles)219
Northumberland Heath (1.24 miles)191
Erith (1.24 miles)191
Crayford (0.88 miles)132
Bowmans (1.75 miles)103
Old Bexley (1.39 miles)101
Coldblow (1.24 miles)99

17.88%
of Crayford residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Barnehurst?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Barnehurst127
Colyers119
Bexleyheath98
Barnes Cray76
Northumberland Heath55
Erith55
Bowmans47
Crayford42
Coldblow36
Old Bexley23

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

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 Barnehurst 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 Barnehurst compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barnehurst and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barnehurst is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Erith68
2Slade Green & Northend68
3Heath54
4Crayford54
5Northumberland Heath52
6Bexleyheath49
7Barnehurst46
8Joyden's Wood43
9Crook Log32
10East Wickham31
11Blendon & Penhill28

Which road in Barnehurst has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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