Crime Statistics for Abbey Wood, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Abbey Wood in September 2024. There were a total of 643 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 Abbey Wood, 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	199
Anti Social Behaviour	144
Vehicle Crime	48
Public Order	42
Other Theft	37
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Drugs	32
Shoplifting	32
Burglary	29
Theft From The Person	20
Robbery	14
Other Crime	8
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	643

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 Abbey Wood. 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 Abbey Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Plumstead (1.24 miles)	1173
North Woolwich (1.96 miles)	617
Abbey Wood	476
Thamesmead (1.39 miles)	441
Plumstead Common (0.88 miles)	347
Shooters Hill (2.24 miles)	297
Bexley (1.86 miles)	262
Creekmouth (1.96 miles)	240
Belvedere (1.86 miles)	236
Falconwood (1.96 miles)	171

Where are the most violent places near Abbey Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Plumstead	407
North Woolwich	228
Abbey Wood	199
Thamesmead	123
Shooters Hill	88
Plumstead Common	84
Belvedere	82
Bexley	62
Creekmouth	55
Falconwood	53

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

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 Abbey Wood 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 Abbey Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Abbey Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Abbey Wood is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey Wood	78
2	Plumstead	72
3	Woolwich Common	72
4	Woolwich Riverside	69
5	Glyndon	62
6	Belvedere	61
7	Shooters Hill	60
8	Thamesmead Moorings	59
9	Falconwood & Welling	41
10	East Wickham	31
11	West Heath	25

Which road in Abbey Wood has the highest level of crime?

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