Crime Statistics for Erith, London, Bexley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Erith in October 2024. There were a total of 291 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 Erith, 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	81
Anti Social Behaviour	60
Vehicle Crime	40
Criminal Damage Arson	23
Public Order	17
Drugs	14
Burglary	14
Other Crime	14
Robbery	8
Other Theft	8
Shoplifting	8
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	291

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Erith. 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 Erith

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Colyers (0.75 miles)	455
Northumberland Heath	430
Bexleyheath (1.75 miles)	350
Barnehurst (1.24 miles)	333
Belvedere (0.88 miles)	299
Erith	291
Coldharbour (1.39 miles)	260
Barnes Cray (1.75 miles)	164
Crayford (1.96 miles)	131
Coldblow (2.48 miles)	53

Where are the most violent places near Erith?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Colyers	166
Northumberland Heath	150
Coldharbour	123
Bexleyheath	96
Barnehurst	95
Belvedere	86
Erith	81
Barnes Cray	50
Crayford	38
Coldblow	19

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

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 Erith 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 Erith compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey Wood	78
2	Erith	68
3	Slade Green & Northend	68
4	Belvedere	61
5	Thamesmead East	60
6	Crayford	54
7	Northumberland Heath	52
8	Bexleyheath	49
9	Barnehurst	46
10	East Wickham	31
11	West Heath	25

Which road in Erith has the highest level of crime?

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