Crime Statistics for Crayford, London, Bexley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Crayford in September 2024. There were a total of 159 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 Crayford, 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	43
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Vehicle Crime	24
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Public Order	12
Drugs	6
Shoplifting	6
Burglary	5
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	4
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	159

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 Crayford. 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 Crayford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barnehurst (0.88 miles)	549
Barnes Cray (0.88 miles)	294
Colyers (1.74 miles)	277
Bexleyheath (1.96 miles)	219
Northumberland Heath (1.96 miles)	206
Crayford	159
Bowmans (0.88 miles)	111
Coldblow (0.88 miles)	79
Heath Side (1.24 miles)	65
Old Bexley (1.39 miles)	53

Where are the most violent places near Crayford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barnehurst	127
Bexleyheath	98
Colyers	94
Barnes Cray	76
Northumberland Heath	73
Crayford	43
Bowmans	40
Heath Side	38
Coldblow	26
Old Bexley	22

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

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 Crayford 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 Crayford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Crayford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Crayford is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Town	85
2	Newtown	77
3	Maypole & Leyton Cross	70
4	West Hill	69
5	Hextable	59
6	Heath	54
7	Crayford	54
8	Bexleyheath	49
9	Barnehurst	46
10	Joyden's Wood	43

Which road in Crayford has the highest level of crime?

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