Crime Statistics for North Woolwich, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for North Woolwich in October 2024. There were a total of 688 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 North Woolwich, 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	213
Anti Social Behaviour	143
Other Theft	53
Public Order	48
Drugs	47
Vehicle Crime	45
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Shoplifting	29
Burglary	26
Robbery	23
Theft From The Person	16
Possession Of Weapons	9
Other Crime	5
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	688

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 North Woolwich. 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 North Woolwich

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Plumstead (0.88 miles)	879
North Woolwich	688
Custom House (1.75 miles)	684
Abbey Wood (1.96 miles)	620
Shooters Hill (1.86 miles)	577
Charlton (1.39 miles)	533
New Charlton (1.96 miles)	520
Plumstead Common (1.75 miles)	429
Beckton (1.24 miles)	389
Creekmouth (1.75 miles)	221

Where are the most violent places near North Woolwich?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Abbey Wood	318
Plumstead	281
North Woolwich	213
Custom House	179
Charlton	175
Plumstead Common	150
New Charlton	143
Shooters Hill	139
Beckton	100
Creekmouth	72

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

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 North Woolwich 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 North Woolwich compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to North Woolwich and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.North Woolwich is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kidbrooke with Hornfair	79
2	Custom House	72
3	Plumstead	72
4	Woolwich Common	72
5	Charlton	70
6	Woolwich Riverside	69
7	Blackheath Westcombe	68
8	Beckton	67
9	Glyndon	62
10	Shooters Hill	60
11	Eltham North	48

Which road in North Woolwich has the highest level of crime?

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