Crime Statistics for Greenhithe, Dartford, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Greenhithe in September 2024. There were a total of 219 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	68
Violent Crime	53
Vehicle Crime	20
Anti Social Behaviour	15
Other Theft	14
Public Order	13
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Burglary	9
Drugs	7
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	219

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 Greenhithe. 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 Greenhithe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stone (0.88 miles)	583
Knockhall (0.88 miles)	444
Temple Hill (1.86 miles)	350
Greenhithe	219
Grays (2.24 miles)	214
South Stifford (1.96 miles)	194
Lakeside (2.48 miles)	177
Bean (1.86 miles)	73
Lane End (2.78 miles)	51
Stonewood (1.96 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Greenhithe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stone	197
Knockhall	147
Temple Hill	135
Grays	72
Greenhithe	53
South Stifford	50
Lakeside	44
Bean	27
Lane End	16
Stonewood	7

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

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 Greenhithe 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 Greenhithe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Greenhithe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Greenhithe is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Temple Hill	93
2	Swanscombe	86
3	Stone House	85
4	Ebbsfleet	84
5	Greenhithe & Knockhall	83
6	Bean & Village Park	77
7	Grays Riverside	73
8	West Thurrock and South Stifford	72
9	Stone Castle	70
10	Brent	68

Which road in Greenhithe has the highest level of crime?

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