Crime Statistics for Blackheath Park, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blackheath Park in September 2024. There were a total of 892 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 Blackheath Park, 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	214
Anti Social Behaviour	198
Shoplifting	72
Other Theft	70
Criminal Damage Arson	62
Burglary	60
Vehicle Crime	50
Theft From The Person	42
Drugs	42
Robbery	30
Public Order	30
Bicycle Theft	10
Other Crime	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	892

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 Blackheath Park. 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 Blackheath Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blackheath Park	868
Greenwich (1.39 miles)	704
Blackheath (0.88 miles)	691
Hither Green (0.76 miles)	689
Catford (1.75 miles)	664
New Charlton (1.86 miles)	506
Kidbrooke (0.88 miles)	497
Shooters Hill (1.96 miles)	265
Chinbrook (1.92 miles)	231
Horn Park (0.84 miles)	204

Where are the most violent places near Blackheath Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Greenwich	231
Hither Green	228
Blackheath Park	214
Catford	204
Blackheath	183
Kidbrooke	168
New Charlton	150
Shooters Hill	122
Chinbrook	76
Horn Park	69

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

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 Blackheath Park 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 Blackheath Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Eltham West	82
2	Kidbrooke with Hornfair	79
3	Rushey Green	77
4	Lewisham Central	75
5	Middle Park and Sutcliffe	69
6	Blackheath	63
7	Lee Green	60
8	Ladywell	58
9	Grove Park	58
10	Catford South	52
11	Eltham North	48

Which road in Blackheath Park has the highest level of crime?

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