Crime Statistics for New Eltham, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Eltham in September 2024. There were a total of 184 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 Eltham, 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	54
Anti Social Behaviour	35
Vehicle Crime	20
Other Theft	20
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Drugs	11
Public Order	8
Other Crime	5
Shoplifting	5
Theft From The Person	5
Burglary	4
Robbery	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	184

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 New Eltham. 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 Eltham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chinbrook (1.68 miles)	618
Chislehurst West (0.88 miles)	375
Longlands (0.57 miles)	320
Sidcup (1.24 miles)	297
Avery Hill (1.24 miles)	216
Blackfen (1.39 miles)	195
New Eltham	184
Falconwood (1.96 miles)	171
Foxbury (0.62 miles)	107
Chislehurst (1.24 miles)	83

Where are the most violent places near New Eltham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chinbrook	216
Chislehurst West	90
Sidcup	86
Longlands	72
Avery Hill	65
Blackfen	59
New Eltham	54
Falconwood	53
Chislehurst	28
Foxbury	24

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

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 Eltham 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 Eltham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to New Eltham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.New Eltham is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mottingham and Chislehurst North	83
2	Eltham South	63
3	Coldharbour and New Eltham	63
4	Chislehurst	55
5	Sidcup	42
6	Falconwood & Welling	41
7	Crook Log	32
8	Bickley	30
9	Blackfen & Lamorbey	28
10	Blendon & Penhill	28
11	Longlands	27

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

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