Crime Statistics for Bell Green, London, Lewisham, 2025

Is Bell Green rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1026 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	268
Anti Social Behaviour	204
Vehicle Crime	104
Other Theft	92
Drugs	74
Criminal Damage Arson	72
Shoplifting	60
Public Order	48
Burglary	40
Other Crime	20
Robbery	20
Theft From The Person	14
Possession Of Weapons	6
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	1026

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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
Bell Green	965
Brockley (1.24 miles)	952
Lower Sydenham (0.88 miles)	821
Honor Oak Park (1.24 miles)	814
Dulwich (1.24 miles)	677
Forest Hill (0.88 miles)	665
Catford (1.39 miles)	465
New Beckenham (1.24 miles)	391
Southend (1.39 miles)	328
Bellingham (0.88 miles)	304

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
Brockley	566
Catford	341
Honor Oak Park	277
Bell Green	268
Lower Sydenham	263
Dulwich	252
Forest Hill	230
Bellingham	124
New Beckenham	89
Southend	79

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.