Crime Statistics for Bell Green, London, Lewisham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bell Green in September 2024. There were a total of 589 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 Bell Green, 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	174
Anti Social Behaviour	118
Vehicle Crime	78
Other Theft	41
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Public Order	32
Burglary	30
Shoplifting	21
Drugs	20
Theft From The Person	18
Robbery	11
Bicycle Theft	7
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	589

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 Bell Green. 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 Bell Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Catford (1.39 miles)	664
Bell Green	589
Brockley (1.24 miles)	577
Lower Sydenham (0.88 miles)	457
Dulwich (1.24 miles)	429
Bellingham (0.88 miles)	427
New Beckenham (1.24 miles)	379
Honor Oak Park (1.24 miles)	374
Forest Hill (0.88 miles)	294
Southend (1.39 miles)	277

Where are the most violent places near Bell Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Catford	204
Brockley	186
Bell Green	174
Dulwich	130
Lower Sydenham	125
New Beckenham	108
Southend	107
Bellingham	99
Honor Oak Park	99
Forest Hill	75

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

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 Bell Green 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 Bell Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bell Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bell Green is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bellingham	76
2	Crystal Palace	76
3	Penge and Cator	72
4	Sydenham	70
5	Perry Vale	68
6	Dulwich Wood	66
7	Whitefoot	66
8	Forest Hill	60
9	Dulwich Hill	53
10	Crofton Park	46
11	Clock House	42

Which road in Bell Green has the highest level of crime?

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