Crime Statistics for Shooters Hill, London, Greenwich, 2025

Is Shooters Hill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 509 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 Shooters Hill, 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	159
Anti Social Behaviour	80
Shoplifting	46
Burglary	40
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Other Theft	32
Drugs	30
Public Order	28
Vehicle Crime	20
Theft From The Person	18
Robbery	10
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	509

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 Shooters Hill. 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 Shooters Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Plumstead (1.39 miles)	1352
Charlton (1.75 miles)	787
Plumstead Common (1.39 miles)	503
Shooters Hill	431
North Woolwich (1.86 miles)	391
Kidbrooke (1.24 miles)	364
Avery Hill (1.39 miles)	319
Horn Park (1.89 miles)	252
Falconwood (1.39 miles)	217
Blackfen (1.75 miles)	140

Where are the most violent places near Shooters Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Plumstead	399
Charlton	254
North Woolwich	252
Plumstead Common	208
Shooters Hill	159
Kidbrooke	108
Horn Park	92
Blackfen	60
Falconwood	59
Avery Hill	58

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

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 Shooters Hill 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 Shooters Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Eltham West	82
2	Kidbrooke with Hornfair	79
3	Woolwich Common	72
4	Charlton	70
5	Woolwich Riverside	69
6	Middle Park and Sutcliffe	69
7	Eltham South	63
8	Glyndon	62
9	Shooters Hill	60
10	Eltham North	48
11	Falconwood & Welling	41

Which road in Shooters Hill has the highest level of crime?

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