Crime Statistics for Greenwich, London, Greenwich, 2025

Is Greenwich rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 945 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 Greenwich, 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 Crime223
Anti Social Behaviour169
Shoplifting131
Vehicle Crime75
Other Theft66
Drugs57
Public Order49
Burglary46
Criminal Damage Arson38
Theft From The Person35
Robbery31
Other Crime11
Bicycle Theft8
Possession Of Weapons6
All Crime945

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Greenwich. 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 Greenwich

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Isle of Dogs (1.39 miles)1158
St Johns (1.39 miles)930
Evelyn (1.61 miles)870
New Charlton (0.88 miles)793
Charlton (1.39 miles)787
Greenwich762
Cubitt Town (1.39 miles)716
Blackheath (0.62 miles)602
Blackheath Park (1.39 miles)422
Kidbrooke (1.39 miles)364

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Where are the most violent places near Greenwich?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
New Charlton352
Isle of Dogs313
Charlton254
Greenwich223
St Johns207
Evelyn202
Cubitt Town186
Blackheath156
Blackheath Park144
Kidbrooke108

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

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 Greenwich 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 Greenwich compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Peninsula84
2Eltham West82
3Brockley74
4Greenwich West70
5Middle Park and Sutcliffe69
6Blackheath Westcombe68
7Evelyn64
8Blackheath63
9Lee Green60
10Ladywell58
11Island Gardens34

Which road in Greenwich has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2025
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