Crime Statistics for Coldharbour, London, Bexley, 2024

Crime statistics for Coldharbour, London

There were a total of 231 street level crime incidents in Coldharbour in January 2024. 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 Coldharbour, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime79
Anti Social Behaviour37
Vehicle Crime21
Other Theft21
Criminal Damage Arson17
Burglary15
Public Order14
Shoplifting9
Robbery6
Other Crime4
Drugs4
Theft From The Person2
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime231

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Coldharbour. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Coldharbour

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Temple Hill (2.63 miles)425
Barnehurst (2.24 miles)346
Colyers (0.89 miles)311
Northumberland Heath (1.39 miles)268
Erith (1.39 miles)268
Belvedere (1.86 miles)247
Coldharbour231
Barnes Cray (1.86 miles)226
Crayford (2.56 miles)180
Rainham (2.48 miles)145

29.51%
of Slade Green & Northend residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Coldharbour?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Temple Hill175
Colyers110
Northumberland Heath106
Erith106
Barnehurst93
Belvedere89
Coldharbour79
Barnes Cray58
Crayford40
Rainham39

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

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 Coldharbour 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 Coldharbour compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Coldharbour and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Coldharbour is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Town85
2West Hill69
3Erith68
4Slade Green & Northend68
5Belvedere61
6Rainham and Wennington61
7Thamesmead East60
8Crayford54
9Northumberland Heath52
10Barnehurst46

Which road in Coldharbour has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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