Crime Statistics for Blackheath, London, Lewisham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blackheath in September 2024. There were a total of 691 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 Blackheath, 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	183
Anti Social Behaviour	131
Other Theft	78
Theft From The Person	52
Public Order	42
Shoplifting	41
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Burglary	33
Drugs	29
Vehicle Crime	27
Robbery	19
Bicycle Theft	10
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	691

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 Blackheath. 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 Blackheath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Johns (1.24 miles)	1441
Isle of Dogs (1.75 miles)	1006
Hither Green (1.06 miles)	995
Blackheath Park (0.88 miles)	868
Ladywell (1.75 miles)	744
Kidbrooke (1.24 miles)	741
Blackheath	691
Greenwich (0.62 miles)	651
New Charlton (1.39 miles)	439
Horn Park (1.72 miles)	317

Where are the most violent places near Blackheath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Johns	460
Hither Green	377
Ladywell	245
Isle of Dogs	220
Kidbrooke	217
Blackheath Park	214
Blackheath	183
New Charlton	182
Greenwich	159
Horn Park	100

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

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 Blackheath 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 Blackheath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Blackheath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Blackheath is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Eltham West	82
2	Rushey Green	77
3	Lewisham Central	75
4	Brockley	74
5	Greenwich West	70
6	Middle Park and Sutcliffe	69
7	Blackheath Westcombe	68
8	Blackheath	63
9	Lee Green	60
10	Ladywell	58
11	Catford South	52

Which road in Blackheath has the highest level of crime?

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