Crime Statistics for Longlands, London, Bexley, 2024

There were a total of 172 street level crime incidents in Longlands in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	42
Violent Crime	36
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Public Order	14
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Burglary	11
Other Theft	10
Shoplifting	9
Theft From The Person	3
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	172

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 Longlands. 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 Longlands

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bexley (1.87 miles)	222
Avery Hill (1.25 miles)	212
New Eltham (0.57 miles)	185
Blackfen (1.12 miles)	172
Longlands	172
Chislehurst West (1.39 miles)	171
Falconwood (1.74 miles)	161
Sidcup (0.69 miles)	145
Foxbury (0.93 miles)	116
Chislehurst (1.48 miles)	76

Where are the most violent places near Longlands?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Eltham	48
Avery Hill	46
Bexley	42
Blackfen	41
Chislehurst West	41
Longlands	36
Sidcup	34
Falconwood	31
Foxbury	26
Chislehurst	17

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

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 Longlands 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 Longlands compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Longlands and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Longlands have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Mottingham and Chislehurst North.

#	Ward	Score
1	Mottingham and Chislehurst North	83
2	Eltham South	63
3	Coldharbour and New Eltham	63
4	Chislehurst	55
5	St Mary's & St James	50
6	Sidcup	42
7	Falconwood & Welling	41
8	Crook Log	32
9	Blackfen & Lamorbey	28
10	Blendon & Penhill	28
11	Longlands	27

Which road in Longlands has the highest level of crime?

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