Crime Statistics for Bromley Common, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bromley Common in October 2024. There were a total of 126 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 Bromley Common, 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	28
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Vehicle Crime	23
Other Theft	12
Drugs	10
Public Order	7
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Burglary	6
Shoplifting	3
Bicycle Theft	1
Other Crime	1
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	126

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 Bromley Common. 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 Bromley Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bromley Park (1.76 miles)	370
Park Langley (1.86 miles)	298
Bickley (1.39 miles)	156
Shortlands (1.39 miles)	153
Crofton (1.96 miles)	140
Southborough (0.62 miles)	134
Bromley Common	126
Locksbottom (1.75 miles)	99
Keston Mark (1.39 miles)	88
Keston (1.86 miles)	17

Where are the most violent places near Bromley Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Park Langley	214
Bromley Park	63
Crofton	50
Locksbottom	40
Southborough	39
Bickley	35
Keston Mark	32
Bromley Common	28
Shortlands	23
Keston	4

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

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 Bromley Common 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 Bromley Common compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bromley Common and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Bromley Common have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Plaistow and Sundridge.

#	Ward	Score
1	Plaistow and Sundridge	66
2	Copers Cope	51
3	Shirley South	50
4	Bromley Common and Keston	47
5	Bromley Town	46
6	Hayes and Coney Hall	34
7	Bickley	30
8	Petts Wood and Knoll	29
9	Farnborough and Crofton	21
10	West Wickham	20
11	Shortlands	15

Which road in Bromley Common has the highest level of crime?

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