Crime Statistics for Thamesmead, London, Greenwich, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Thamesmead in October 2024. There were a total of 696 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 Thamesmead, 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	184
Anti Social Behaviour	125
Vehicle Crime	96
Other Theft	61
Shoplifting	51
Drugs	47
Criminal Damage Arson	45
Public Order	36
Robbery	19
Burglary	14
Other Crime	7
Theft From The Person	6
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	696

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 Thamesmead. 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 Thamesmead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Plumstead (2.24 miles)	879
North Woolwich (2.55 miles)	688
Abbey Wood (1.39 miles)	620
Thamesmead	555
Dagenham (2.56 miles)	544
Plumstead Common (2.24 miles)	429
Beckton (2.56 miles)	389
Castle Green (1.86 miles)	324
Belvedere (1.75 miles)	299
Creekmouth (1.39 miles)	221

Where are the most violent places near Thamesmead?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Thamesmead 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
Thamesmead	184
Dagenham	170
Plumstead Common	150
Beckton	100
Castle Green	100
Belvedere	86
Creekmouth	72

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

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 Thamesmead 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 Thamesmead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Thamesmead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Thamesmead is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey Wood	78
2	Plumstead	72
3	Erith	68
4	Beckton	67
5	Glyndon	62
6	Belvedere	61
7	Thamesmead East	60
8	Thamesmead Moorings	59
9	Northumberland Heath	52
10	East Wickham	31
11	West Heath	25

Which road in Thamesmead has the highest level of crime?

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