Crime Statistics for Bexleyheath, London, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bexleyheath in September 2024. There were a total of 338 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

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	98
Vehicle Crime	46
Shoplifting	44
Anti Social Behaviour	34
Other Theft	25
Public Order	23
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Drugs	15
Theft From The Person	11
Robbery	10
Other Crime	10
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	338

Map of street level crime incidents in September 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
Barnehurst (1.24 miles)	549
Bexley (1.24 miles)	262
Bexleyheath	219
Northumberland Heath (1.75 miles)	206
Erith (1.75 miles)	206
Blackfen (1.96 miles)	195
Falconwood (1.86 miles)	171
Crayford (1.96 miles)	159
Coldblow (1.75 miles)	79
Old Bexley (1.39 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
Barnehurst	127
Bexleyheath	98
Northumberland Heath	73
Erith	73
Bexley	62
Blackfen	59
Falconwood	53
Crayford	43
Coldblow	26
Old Bexley	22

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 this marker.