Crime Statistics for Downham, London, Lewisham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Downham in September 2024. There were a total of 716 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 Downham, 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	201
Anti Social Behaviour	132
Vehicle Crime	80
Shoplifting	56
Other Theft	46
Public Order	46
Criminal Damage Arson	46
Drugs	36
Burglary	26
Theft From The Person	20
Other Crime	15
Robbery	6
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	716

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Catford (1.39 miles)	767
Downham	709
Chinbrook (1.61 miles)	618
New Beckenham (1.96 miles)	457
Bellingham (1.24 miles)	427
Plaistow (0.88 miles)	400
Southend (0.62 miles)	339
Bromley Park (1.24 miles)	326
Beckenham (1.75 miles)	273
Shortlands (1.86 miles)	163

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Catford	236
Chinbrook	216
Downham	201
New Beckenham	100
Bellingham	99
Plaistow	91
Southend	89
Bromley Park	70
Beckenham	62
Shortlands	37

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bellingham	76
2	Downham	73
3	Penge and Cator	72
4	Whitefoot	66
5	Plaistow and Sundridge	66
6	Catford South	52
7	Copers Cope	51
8	Bromley Town	46
9	Kelsey and Eden Park	46
10	Clock House	42
11	Shortlands	15

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.