Crime Statistics for Park Langley, London, Bromley, 2024

Crime statistics for Park Langley, London

There were a total of 155 street level crime incidents in Park Langley in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Park Langley, 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 Crime56
Vehicle Crime26
Other Theft17
Anti Social Behaviour16
Burglary7
Public Order7
Other Crime6
Robbery5
Shoplifting5
Drugs5
Criminal Damage Arson3
Possession Of Weapons1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime155

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 Park Langley. 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 Park Langley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Monks Orchard (1.86 miles)416
Bromley Park (1.39 miles)401
Shirley (1.96 miles)273
Upper Elmers End (1.24 miles)268
Eden Park (1.39 miles)242
Beckenham (1.39 miles)235
Shortlands (0.88 miles)169
Bromley Common (1.86 miles)158
Park Langley155
Spring Park (1.75 miles)109

24.85%
of Shirley South (Croydon) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Park Langley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Monks Orchard121
Bromley Park85
Eden Park70
Upper Elmers End69
Shirley68
Park Langley56
Beckenham51
Shortlands42
Bromley Common21
Spring Park19

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

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 Park Langley 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 Park Langley compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1New Addington North67
2Plaistow and Sundridge66
3Copers Cope51
4Shirley South50
5Selsdon & Addington Village47
6Bromley Town46
7Kelsey and Eden Park46
8Shirley North44
9Clock House42
10West Wickham20
11Shortlands15

Which road in Park Langley has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Park Langley 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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