Crime Statistics for Avery Hill, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Avery Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 216 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 Avery Hill, 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 Crime65
Anti Social Behaviour36
Other Theft25
Vehicle Crime21
Criminal Damage Arson15
Public Order11
Shoplifting10
Theft From The Person9
Drugs7
Other Crime6
Burglary6
Robbery3
Possession Of Weapons1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime216

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 Avery Hill. 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 Avery Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Plumstead Common (1.96 miles)347
Longlands (1.25 miles)320
Sidcup (1.75 miles)297
Shooters Hill (1.39 miles)297
Bexley (1.39 miles)262
Avery Hill216
Blackfen (0.62 miles)195
New Eltham (1.24 miles)184
Falconwood (0.88 miles)171
Foxbury (1.86 miles)107

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Where are the most violent places near Avery Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Shooters Hill88
Sidcup86
Plumstead Common84
Longlands72
Avery Hill65
Bexley62
Blackfen59
New Eltham54
Falconwood53
Foxbury24

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

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 Avery Hill 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 Avery Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Mottingham and Chislehurst North83
2Eltham South63
3Coldharbour and New Eltham63
4Shooters Hill60
5Eltham North48
6Sidcup42
7Falconwood & Welling41
8Crook Log32
9Blackfen & Lamorbey28
10Blendon & Penhill28
11Longlands27

Which road in Avery Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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