Crime and Safety in Abbey Wood, Bexley
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crimes in Abbey Wood are violence and sexual offences, with 946 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 32. This is 6% higher than 2025's figure of 896 offences and a difference of 1.67 from 2025's crime rate of 31. Abbey Wood's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 21 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 17% from 2025's figure of 18 crimes.
Abbey Wood 2026 Crime Scorecard
40% higher, borough crime rate
London
17% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Bexley is 40% higher than London and 17% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Bexley Crime Rate Over Time
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Abbey Wood Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Abbey Wood represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Abbey Wood's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Abbey Wood up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Abbey Wood's 150 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
Abbey Wood • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Abbey Wood has a crime risk score of 601. This is based on analysis of 150 nearby areas within Abbey Wood, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Abbey Wood's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Abbey Wood, crime risk scores are typically around 601, while in Bexley they are average 440.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 703 (538 for Bexley), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 761 (Bexley 593).
Trends in Crime Risk
Abbey Wood
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
No trend could be found in Abbey Wood's crime risk scores over the last 10 years, and the trend may well be static.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in Abbey Wood's crime risk score is up by 12%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Over the last year, Abbey Wood's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 4.5%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Abbey Wood
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Abbey Wood • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Vehicle Crime offences have a crime rate of 12 reports per 1,000 people in Abbey Wood, which is 2.86 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 359 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 79 reports of Robbery in Abbey Wood, resulting in a crime rate of 2.71 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.30.
The crime rate for Drugs is 2.00 times the national average at 6.19 reports per 1,000. This is from 181 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Abbey Wood
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.65 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.98 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 34% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Abbey Wood
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.81 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 1.22 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 34% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.42 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 1.27 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 67% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.36 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 1.12 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 68% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Abbey Wood • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 672 | 23.01 | 1.63 | 3,920 | 14.70 | 1.04 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 22 | 0.74 | 1.51 | 71 | 0.27 | 0.37 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 98 | 3.36 | 1.07 | 777 | 2.90 | 0.93 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 193 | 6.60 | 1.05 | 1,623 | 6.09 | 0.97 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 181 | 6.19 | 2.00 | 1,016 | 3.81 | 1.23 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 51 | 1.75 | 0.95 | 287 | 1.07 | 0.58 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 159 | 5.46 | 0.96 | 1,183 | 4.43 | 0.78 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 21 | 0.70 | 0.90 | 121 | 0.46 | 0.54 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 177 | 6.06 | 1.04 | 1,222 | 4.58 | 0.79 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 79 | 2.71 | 2.30 | 329 | 1.23 | 1.04 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 150 | 5.12 | 0.72 | 1,580 | 5.93 | 0.83 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 32 | 1.09 | 0.76 | 238 | 0.91 | 0.59 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 359 | 12.29 | 2.86 | 1,612 | 6.06 | 1.41 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 946 | 32.39 | 1.07 | 5,975 | 22.40 | 0.74 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 2,468 | 84.46 | 1.18 | 16,034 | 60.14 | 0.84 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 2,622 | 90.29 | 1.23 | 16,329 | 61.57 | 0.83 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 2,823 | 97.94 | 1.31 | 16,698 | 63.69 | 0.84 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 2,507 | 89.13 | 1.15 | 15,610 | 60.61 | 0.77 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 2,313 | 83.76 | 1.10 | 15,317 | 59.87 | 0.78 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 2,214 | 79.43 | 1.17 | 14,585 | 57.01 | 0.83 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 2,321 | 82.44 | 1.13 | 16,610 | 64.96 | 0.88 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 2,276 | 80.79 | 1.07 | 16,056 | 63.05 | 0.83 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 1,983 | 70.54 | 1.00 | 14,618 | 57.61 | 0.81 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 2,192 | 78.03 | 1.23 | 13,355 | 52.80 | 0.83 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 680 | 24.21 | 1.29 | 4,175 | 16.51 | 0.87 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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Abbey Wood Compared to Other Bexley Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Thamesmead North | 12 | 22.44 | 73% safer |
| East Wickam | 475 | 39.90 | 53% safer |
| Lessness Heath | 841 | 60.41 | 28% safer |
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