Crime Statistics for Chelsfield, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chelsfield in August 2024. There were a total of 83 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 Chelsfield, 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 Crime21
Anti Social Behaviour21
Shoplifting13
Vehicle Crime8
Burglary5
Criminal Damage Arson4
Public Order4
Drugs3
Robbery1
Other Theft1
Other Crime1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime83

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
St Mary Cray (1.86 miles)195
Broom Hill (1.39 miles)181
Ramsden (1.39 miles)151
Crofton (1.75 miles)115
Chelsfield83
Farnborough (1.24 miles)78
Locksbottom (1.96 miles)70
Green Street Green (0.88 miles)33
Rushmore Hill (1.96 miles)13
Maypole (1.96 miles)9

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Where are the most violent places near Chelsfield?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
St Mary Cray51
Broom Hill49
Ramsden37
Crofton32
Farnborough26
Chelsfield21
Locksbottom21
Green Street Green8
Maypole3
Rushmore Hill2

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

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 Chelsfield 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 Chelsfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Crockenhill and Well Hill92
2Cray Valley East79
3Cray Valley West74
4Orpington55
5Chislehurst55
6Bromley Common and Keston47
7Darwin41
8Halstead, Knockholt and Badgers Mount37
9Petts Wood and Knoll29
10Farnborough and Crofton21
11Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom18

Which road in Chelsfield has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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