Crime Statistics for Charlton, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Charlton in October 2024. There were a total of 533 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 Charlton, 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	175
Anti Social Behaviour	71
Shoplifting	51
Vehicle Crime	44
Other Theft	40
Public Order	35
Criminal Damage Arson	35
Burglary	26
Drugs	16
Theft From The Person	14
Robbery	13
Bicycle Theft	5
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	533

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 Charlton. 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 Charlton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greenwich (1.39 miles)	1382
Cubitt Town (1.96 miles)	934
Plumstead (1.86 miles)	879
Blackheath (1.75 miles)	752
North Woolwich (1.39 miles)	688
Custom House (1.86 miles)	684
Shooters Hill (1.75 miles)	577
Charlton	533
New Charlton (0.62 miles)	520
Kidbrooke (1.24 miles)	392

Where are the most violent places near Charlton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Greenwich	656
Plumstead	281
Cubitt Town	220
North Woolwich	213
Custom House	179
Blackheath	177
Charlton	175
New Charlton	143
Shooters Hill	139
Kidbrooke	87

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

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 Charlton 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 Charlton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Charlton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Charlton is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peninsula	84
2	Eltham West	82
3	Kidbrooke with Hornfair	79
4	Custom House	72
5	Woolwich Common	72
6	Charlton	70
7	Woolwich Riverside	69
8	Blackheath Westcombe	68
9	Royal Docks	50
10	Eltham North	48
11	Blackwall & Cubitt Town	36

Which road in Charlton has the highest level of crime?

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