Crime Statistics for Chislehurst, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chislehurst in October 2024. There were a total of 55 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 Chislehurst, 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	15
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Other Theft	4
Public Order	3
Burglary	3
Other Crime	3
Drugs	3
Theft From The Person	2
Shoplifting	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	55

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 Chislehurst. 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 Chislehurst

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chinbrook (2.16 miles)	494
St Paul’s Cray (1.39 miles)	444
Longlands (1.48 miles)	190
Chislehurst West (0.88 miles)	174
Sidcup (1.75 miles)	172
New Eltham (1.24 miles)	170
Bickley (1.39 miles)	156
Southborough (2.24 miles)	134
Foxbury (0.62 miles)	94
Chislehurst	55

Where are the most violent places near Chislehurst?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Paul’s Cray	228
Chinbrook	184
Foxbury	72
New Eltham	59
Chislehurst West	57
Longlands	56
Sidcup	45
Southborough	39
Bickley	35
Chislehurst	15

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

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 Chislehurst 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 Chislehurst compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chislehurst and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chislehurst is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mottingham and Chislehurst North	83
2	Cray Valley East	79
3	Cray Valley West	74
4	Plaistow and Sundridge	66
5	Coldharbour and New Eltham	63
6	Chislehurst	55
7	Sidcup	42
8	Bickley	30
9	Petts Wood and Knoll	29
10	Blackfen & Lamorbey	28
11	Longlands	27

Which road in Chislehurst has the highest level of crime?

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