Crime Statistics for Sidcup, London, Bexley, 2024

There were a total of 145 street level crime incidents in Sidcup 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 Sidcup, 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	34
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Vehicle Crime	29
Public Order	14
Other Theft	10
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Shoplifting	5
Burglary	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	3
Drugs	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	145

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 Sidcup. 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 Sidcup

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bexley (1.86 miles)	222
Avery Hill (1.75 miles)	212
St Paul’s Cray (1.86 miles)	206
New Eltham (1.24 miles)	185
Blackfen (1.39 miles)	172
Longlands (0.69 miles)	172
Sidcup	145
Foxbury (1.39 miles)	116
Chislehurst (1.75 miles)	76
Ruxley (1.84 miles)	60

Where are the most violent places near Sidcup?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Paul’s Cray	59
New Eltham	48
Avery Hill	46
Bexley	42
Blackfen	41
Longlands	36
Sidcup	34
Foxbury	26
Chislehurst	17
Ruxley	10

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

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 Sidcup 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 Sidcup compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sidcup and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Resident in Sidcup 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 Sidcup has the highest level of crime?

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