Crime Statistics for Blackfen, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blackfen in October 2024. There were a total of 154 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 Blackfen, 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	41
Anti Social Behaviour	33
Vehicle Crime	27
Shoplifting	11
Other Theft	10
Burglary	9
Public Order	6
Drugs	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Robbery	4
Other Crime	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	154

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 Blackfen. 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 Blackfen

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shooters Hill (1.75 miles)	577
Plumstead Common (1.86 miles)	429
Avery Hill (0.62 miles)	367
Bexleyheath (1.96 miles)	350
Bexley (0.88 miles)	260
Longlands (1.12 miles)	190
Sidcup (1.39 miles)	172
New Eltham (1.39 miles)	170
Falconwood (0.62 miles)	159
Blackfen	154

Where are the most violent places near Blackfen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Avery Hill	200
Plumstead Common	150
Shooters Hill	139
Bexleyheath	96
Bexley	64
New Eltham	59
Longlands	56
Falconwood	46
Sidcup	45
Blackfen	41

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

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 Blackfen 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 Blackfen compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Mottingham and Chislehurst North	83
2	Eltham South	63
3	Coldharbour and New Eltham	63
4	Shooters Hill	60
5	Eltham North	48
6	Sidcup	42
7	Falconwood & Welling	41
8	Crook Log	32
9	Blackfen & Lamorbey	28
10	Blendon & Penhill	28
11	Longlands	27

Which road in Blackfen has the highest level of crime?

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