Crime Statistics for Bexleyheath, London, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bexleyheath in October 2024. There were a total of 350 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 Bexleyheath, 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	96
Anti Social Behaviour	50
Shoplifting	49
Other Theft	27
Public Order	25
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Drugs	22
Vehicle Crime	16
Burglary	15
Robbery	10
Theft From The Person	10
Other Crime	5
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	350

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 Bexleyheath. 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 Bexleyheath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Northumberland Heath (1.75 miles)	430
Bexleyheath	350
Barnehurst (1.24 miles)	333
Erith (1.75 miles)	291
Bexley (1.24 miles)	260
Falconwood (1.86 miles)	159
Blackfen (1.96 miles)	154
Crayford (1.96 miles)	131
Old Bexley (1.39 miles)	117
Coldblow (1.75 miles)	53

Where are the most violent places near Bexleyheath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Northumberland Heath	150
Bexleyheath	96
Barnehurst	95
Erith	81
Bexley	64
Falconwood	46
Blackfen	41
Crayford	38
Old Bexley	31
Coldblow	19

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

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 Bexleyheath 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 Bexleyheath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bexleyheath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bexleyheath is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Abbey Wood	78
2	Eltham South	63
3	Northumberland Heath	52
4	Bexleyheath	49
5	Sidcup	42
6	Falconwood & Welling	41
7	Crook Log	32
8	East Wickham	31
9	Blackfen & Lamorbey	28
10	Blendon & Penhill	28
11	West Heath	25

Which road in Bexleyheath has the highest level of crime?

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