Crime Statistics for Brockley, London, Lewisham, 2025

Is Brockley rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 1926 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 Brockley, 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	566
Anti Social Behaviour	392
Other Theft	160
Vehicle Crime	148
Criminal Damage Arson	136
Burglary	116
Drugs	116
Shoplifting	92
Public Order	92
Theft From The Person	44
Robbery	36
Other Crime	12
Possession Of Weapons	8
Bicycle Theft	8
All Crime	1926

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 Brockley. 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 Brockley

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ladywell (0.62 miles)	1250
Bell Green (1.24 miles)	965
Brockley	952
Honor Oak Park	814
Telegraph Hill (1.24 miles)	671
Forest Hill (0.88 miles)	665
New Cross (1.24 miles)	621
Honor Oak (0.62 miles)	516
Nunhead (0.88 miles)	477
Catford (1.39 miles)	465

Where are the most violent places near Brockley?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ladywell	803
Brockley	566
Catford	341
Honor Oak Park	277
Bell Green	268
Forest Hill	230
New Cross	175
Telegraph Hill	173
Honor Oak	163
Nunhead	123

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

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 Brockley 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 Brockley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Brockley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Brockley have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is New Cross.

#	Ward	Score
1	New Cross	82
2	Rushey Green	77
3	Penge and Cator	72
4	Sydenham	70
5	Perry Vale	68
6	Forest Hill	60
7	Ladywell	58
8	Peckham Rye	55
9	Dulwich Hill	53
10	Catford South	52
11	Crofton Park	46

Which road in Brockley has the highest level of crime?

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