Crime Statistics for Southend, London, Lewisham, 2025

Is Southend rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 328 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 Southend, 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	79
Anti Social Behaviour	65
Vehicle Crime	55
Other Theft	26
Shoplifting	18
Public Order	16
Drugs	16
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Burglary	13
Other Crime	8
Robbery	8
Theft From The Person	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	328

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 Southend. 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 Southend

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bell Green (1.39 miles)	965
Lower Sydenham (1.86 miles)	821
Catford (1.24 miles)	465
Plaistow (1.39 miles)	402
New Beckenham (1.39 miles)	391
Downham (0.62 miles)	371
Bromley Park (1.39 miles)	349
Southend	328
Beckenham (1.39 miles)	326
Bellingham (0.62 miles)	304

Where are the most violent places near Southend?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Catford	341
Bell Green	268
Lower Sydenham	263
Bellingham	124
Downham	102
Bromley Park	92
Beckenham	90
Plaistow	89
New Beckenham	89
Southend	79

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

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 Southend 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 Southend compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bellingham	76
2	Downham	73
3	Penge and Cator	72
4	Sydenham	70
5	Whitefoot	66
6	Plaistow and Sundridge	66
7	Catford South	52
8	Copers Cope	51
9	Bromley Town	46
10	Kelsey and Eden Park	46
11	Clock House	42

Which road in Southend has the highest level of crime?

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