Crime Statistics for New Beckenham, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for New Beckenham in July 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in New Beckenham, 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 Crime2
Criminal Damage Arson1
Bicycle Theft1
Other Theft1
Public Order1
Robbery1
All Crime7

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bell Green (1.24 miles)466
Bellingham (0.88 miles)412
Anerley (1.39 miles)407
Beckenham (0.88 miles)188
Lower Sydenham (0.88 miles)11
Penge (1.24 miles)11
Eden Park (1.24 miles)8
New Beckenham7
Dulwich (1.76 miles)7
Southend (1.39 miles)4

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Where are the most violent places near New Beckenham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Anerley186
Bell Green135
Bellingham125
Beckenham53
Lower Sydenham8
Penge4
New Beckenham2
Dulwich2
Eden Park1
Southend1

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

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 New Beckenham 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 New Beckenham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Bellingham76
2Crystal Palace76
3Downham73
4Penge and Cator72
5Sydenham70
6Perry Vale68
7Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood67
8Dulwich Wood66
9Copers Cope51
10Kelsey and Eden Park46
11Clock House42

Which road in New Beckenham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: July 2024
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