Crime Statistics for New Charlton, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Charlton in October 2024. There were a total of 520 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 New 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	143
Anti Social Behaviour	91
Shoplifting	59
Other Theft	41
Public Order	39
Vehicle Crime	35
Burglary	25
Theft From The Person	22
Criminal Damage Arson	21
Drugs	18
Robbery	12
Bicycle Theft	8
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	520

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 New 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 New Charlton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greenwich (0.88 miles)	1382
Isle of Dogs (1.86 miles)	1047
Cubitt Town (1.39 miles)	934
Blackwall (1.75 miles)	933
Canning Town (1.86 miles)	808
Blackheath (1.39 miles)	752
Charlton (0.62 miles)	533
New Charlton	520
Blackheath Park (1.86 miles)	427
Kidbrooke (1.39 miles)	392

Where are the most violent places near New Charlton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Greenwich	656
Canning Town	325
Blackwall	244
Isle of Dogs	233
Cubitt Town	220
Blackheath	177
Charlton	175
New Charlton	143
Kidbrooke	87
Blackheath Park	86

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in New 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 New 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 New Charlton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Charlton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Charlton is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Peninsula	84
2	Eltham West	82
3	Kidbrooke with Hornfair	79
4	Brockley	74
5	Greenwich West	70
6	Charlton	70
7	Blackheath Westcombe	68
8	Blackheath	63
9	Royal Docks	50
10	Blackwall & Cubitt Town	36
11	Island Gardens	34

Which road in New Charlton has the highest level of crime?

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