Crime Statistics for Beckton, London, Newham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Beckton in September 2024. There were a total of 395 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 Beckton, 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	78
Anti Social Behaviour	61
Vehicle Crime	57
Drugs	49
Shoplifting	35
Other Theft	29
Public Order	18
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Other Crime	15
Theft From The Person	12
Robbery	9
Burglary	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	395

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 Beckton. 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 Beckton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Plashet (2.24 miles)	1335
Canning Town (1.86 miles)	1216
Plumstead (1.96 miles)	1173
Custom House (1.24 miles)	1090
Plaistow (1.96 miles)	1051
Wallend (1.24 miles)	896
Barking (1.96 miles)	815
North Woolwich (1.24 miles)	617
Beckton	395
Creekmouth (1.24 miles)	240

Where are the most violent places near Beckton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Plumstead	407
Canning Town	391
Custom House	318
Plashet	292
Plaistow	258
North Woolwich	228
Barking	225
Wallend	202
Beckton	78
Creekmouth	55

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

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 Beckton 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 Beckton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Canning Town South	80
2	Plaistow South	74
3	Abbey	74
4	Custom House	72
5	Plumstead	72
6	Woolwich Common	72
7	Charlton	70
8	East Ham South	69
9	Woolwich Riverside	69
10	Beckton	67
11	Royal Docks	50

Which road in Beckton has the highest level of crime?

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