Crime Statistics for St Paul’s Cray, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Paul’s Cray in October 2024. There were a total of 880 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 St Paul’s Cray, 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	228
Anti Social Behaviour	128
Vehicle Crime	124
Criminal Damage Arson	96
Shoplifting	84
Drugs	60
Public Order	56
Other Theft	48
Burglary	24
Other Crime	12
Robbery	8
Theft From The Person	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	880

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 St Paul’s Cray. 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 St Paul’s Cray

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Paul’s Cray	444
St Mary Cray (1.24 miles)	295
Broom Hill (1.96 miles)	193
Kevingtown (1.75 miles)	189
Ramsden (1.96 miles)	182
Sidcup (1.86 miles)	172
Ruxley (1.78 miles)	102
Foxbury (1.75 miles)	94
Chislehurst (1.39 miles)	55
Hockenden (1.96 miles)	42

Where are the most violent places near St Paul’s Cray?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Paul’s Cray	228
St Mary Cray	110
Ramsden	107
Foxbury	72
Kevingtown	59
Broom Hill	49
Sidcup	45
Ruxley	36
Chislehurst	15
Hockenden	14

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in St Paul’s Cray?

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 St Paul’s Cray 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 St Paul’s Cray compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St Paul’s Cray and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.St Paul’s Cray is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Cray Valley East	79
2	Cray Valley West	74
3	Coldharbour and New Eltham	63
4	Orpington	55
5	Chislehurst	55
6	St Mary's & St James	50
7	Sidcup	42
8	Bickley	30
9	Petts Wood and Knoll	29
10	Longlands	27
11	Farnborough and Crofton	21

Which road in St Paul’s Cray has the highest level of crime?

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