Crime Statistics for Bickley, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bickley in September 2024. There were a total of 201 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 Bickley, 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	50
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Other Theft	28
Vehicle Crime	27
Public Order	17
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Drugs	10
Shoplifting	9
Robbery	6
Burglary	5
Theft From The Person	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	201

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 Bickley. 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 Bickley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Plaistow (1.39 miles)	578
Bromley Park (1.86 miles)	292
Chinbrook (2.03 miles)	231
Bickley	173
Foxbury (1.75 miles)	161
Chislehurst West (1.39 miles)	148
Shortlands (1.96 miles)	136
Southborough (1.24 miles)	113
Bromley Common (1.39 miles)	113
Chislehurst (1.39 miles)	61

Where are the most violent places near Bickley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Plaistow	156
Bromley Park	85
Chinbrook	76
Foxbury	53
Chislehurst West	53
Bickley	50
Shortlands	38
Bromley Common	29
Southborough	25
Chislehurst	14

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

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 Bickley 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 Bickley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bickley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bickley is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mottingham and Chislehurst North	83
2	Downham	73
3	Plaistow and Sundridge	66
4	Coldharbour and New Eltham	63
5	Chislehurst	55
6	Copers Cope	51
7	Bromley Town	46
8	Bickley	30
9	Petts Wood and Knoll	29
10	West Wickham	20
11	Shortlands	15

Which road in Bickley has the highest level of crime?

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