Crime Statistics for Bell Green, London, Lewisham, 2024

Is Bell Green rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 1005 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime267
Anti Social Behaviour168
Vehicle Crime142
Other Theft86
Public Order72
Drugs68
Shoplifting46
Burglary42
Criminal Damage Arson42
Robbery26
Theft From The Person22
Other Crime18
Bicycle Theft4
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime1005

Map of street level crime incidents in December 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Catford (1.39 miles)1262
Bell Green908
New Beckenham (1.24 miles)881
Dulwich (1.24 miles)649
Lower Sydenham (0.88 miles)566
Southend (1.39 miles)513
Brockley (1.24 miles)430
Honor Oak Park (1.24 miles)428
Bellingham (0.88 miles)423
Forest Hill (0.88 miles)334

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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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Catford482
Bell Green267
New Beckenham203
Brockley185
Dulwich177
Southend175
Honor Oak Park147
Lower Sydenham138
Forest Hill130
Bellingham107

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.

#WardScore
1Bellingham76
2Crystal Palace76
3Penge and Cator72
4Sydenham70
5Perry Vale68
6Dulwich Wood66
7Whitefoot66
8Forest Hill60
9Dulwich Hill53
10Crofton Park46
11Clock House42

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.

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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