Crime Statistics for Downham, London, Lewisham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Downham in August 2024. There were a total of 293 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour83
Violent Crime82
Vehicle Crime23
Public Order21
Other Theft17
Criminal Damage Arson17
Burglary13
Drugs11
Shoplifting10
Robbery6
Theft From The Person6
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime293

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Downham. 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 Downham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Catford (1.39 miles)664
Plaistow (0.88 miles)578
Bellingham (1.24 miles)427
New Beckenham (1.96 miles)379
Downham293
Bromley Park (1.24 miles)292
Southend (0.62 miles)277
Beckenham (1.75 miles)273
Chinbrook (1.61 miles)231
Shortlands (1.86 miles)136

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Where are the most violent places near Downham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Catford204
Plaistow156
New Beckenham108
Southend107
Bellingham99
Bromley Park85
Downham82
Chinbrook76
Beckenham62
Shortlands38

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

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 Downham 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 Downham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Downham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Downham is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Bellingham76
2Downham73
3Penge and Cator72
4Whitefoot66
5Plaistow and Sundridge66
6Catford South52
7Copers Cope51
8Bromley Town46
9Kelsey and Eden Park46
10Clock House42
11Shortlands15

Which road in Downham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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