Crime Statistics for North Woolwich, London, Greenwich, 2025

Is North Woolwich rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 728 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	252
Anti Social Behaviour	106
Drugs	73
Other Theft	56
Public Order	48
Vehicle Crime	46
Criminal Damage Arson	43
Robbery	23
Shoplifting	23
Burglary	19
Other Crime	19
Theft From The Person	13
Possession Of Weapons	7
All Crime	728

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 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)	1352
Custom House (1.75 miles)	957
New Charlton (1.96 miles)	793
Charlton (1.39 miles)	787
Plumstead Common (1.75 miles)	503
Shooters Hill (1.86 miles)	431
Beckton (1.24 miles)	397
Abbey Wood (1.96 miles)	393
North Woolwich	391
Creekmouth (1.75 miles)	206

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
Plumstead	399
New Charlton	352
Custom House	286
Charlton	254
North Woolwich	252
Plumstead Common	208
Shooters Hill	159
Beckton	139
Abbey Wood	124
Creekmouth	57

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 this marker.