Crime Statistics for Crofton, London, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Crofton in October 2024. There were a total of 166 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Crofton, 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	50
Shoplifting	24
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Vehicle Crime	18
Public Order	12
Drugs	11
Other Theft	9
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Burglary	7
Other Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	166

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Mary Cray (1.39 miles)	295
Broom Hill (0.62 miles)	193
Chelsfield (1.75 miles)	191
Ramsden (1.86 miles)	182
Farnborough (1.24 miles)	164
Crofton	140
Southborough (1.39 miles)	134
Bromley Common (1.96 miles)	126
Locksbottom (0.88 miles)	99
Keston Mark (1.39 miles)	88

Where are the most violent places near Crofton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Mary Cray	110
Ramsden	107
Farnborough	55
Crofton	50
Broom Hill	49
Locksbottom	40
Southborough	39
Keston Mark	32
Chelsfield	30
Bromley Common	28

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

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 Crofton 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 Crofton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Cray Valley East	79
2	Cray Valley West	74
3	Orpington	55
4	Chislehurst	55
5	Bromley Common and Keston	47
6	Darwin	41
7	Hayes and Coney Hall	34
8	Bickley	30
9	Petts Wood and Knoll	29
10	Farnborough and Crofton	21
11	Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom	18

Which road in Crofton has the highest level of crime?

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