Crime and Safety in New Charlton, Greenwich
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in New Charlton is shoplifting, with 255 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 90. This is 42% higher than 2025's figure of 180 offences and a difference of 27.03 from 2025's crime rate of 63. New Charlton's least common crimes are possession of weapons, with 2 offences recorded in 2026, the same as 2025's figure of 2 crimes.
New Charlton 2026 Crime Scorecard
234% higher, borough crime rate
London
304% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Greenwich is 234% higher than London and 304% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Greenwich Crime Rate Over Time
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New Charlton Crime Map
Incidents mapped in New Charlton 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 New Charlton's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around New Charlton up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of New Charlton's 23 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
New Charlton • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within New Charlton has a crime risk score of 803. This is based on analysis of 23 nearby areas within New Charlton, 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 New Charlton's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in New Charlton, crime risk scores are typically around 803, while in Greenwich they are average 597.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 785 (678 for Greenwich), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 818 (Greenwich 733).
Trends in Crime Risk
New Charlton
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.
The 10-year trend indicates a decrease of 13% in New Charlton's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
Looking at the previous five years, the trend in New Charlton's crime risk score is up by 10%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
The risk score trend over the last year has not shown any statistically meaningful movement up or down.
Crime Rates and Indexes
New Charlton
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
New Charlton • 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.
Shoplifting offences have a crime rate of 90 reports per 1,000 people in New Charlton, which is 13 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 255 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 31 reports of Robbery in New Charlton, resulting in a crime rate of 11 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 9.95.
The crime rate for Theft From the Person is 8.34 times the national average at 13 reports per 1,000. This is from 37 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
New Charlton
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.
Drugs offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 6.17 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 1.81 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 241% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
New Charlton
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.00 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 6.91 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 86% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 4.44 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 2.38 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 87% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 3.50 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 8.44 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 59% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
New Charlton • 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 | 82 | 28.62 | 2.03 | 6,576 | 20.77 | 1.47 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | 5 | 1.75 | 6.73 | 254 | 0.81 | 1.11 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 26 | 9.07 | 3.50 | 1,395 | 4.40 | 1.41 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 50 | 17.47 | 2.78 | 1,969 | 6.22 | 0.99 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 25 | 8.77 | 3.11 | 1,803 | 5.69 | 1.84 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 7 | 2.47 | 3.21 | 436 | 1.37 | 0.74 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 90 | 31.46 | 5.53 | 2,443 | 7.73 | 1.36 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 2 | 0.70 | 4.67 | 207 | 0.64 | 0.75 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 62 | 21.65 | 3.73 | 2,160 | 6.83 | 1.18 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 31 | 10.85 | 9.95 | 800 | 2.52 | 2.14 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 255 | 89.64 | 13 | 2,736 | 8.63 | 1.21 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 37 | 12.92 | 8.34 | 838 | 2.64 | 1.70 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 64 | 22.37 | 5.20 | 2,483 | 7.84 | 1.82 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 177 | 61.97 | 2.04 | 10,059 | 31.79 | 1.05 | 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 | 831 | 291.09 | 4.23 | 27,583 | 87.11 | 1.21 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 769 | 280.21 | 4.14 | 27,288 | 86.77 | 1.17 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 834 | 315.15 | 4.44 | 27,224 | 87.41 | 1.16 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 811 | 315.21 | 4.22 | 25,732 | 83.74 | 1.06 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 769 | 306.11 | 4.12 | 25,463 | 83.87 | 1.09 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 752 | 302.11 | 4.65 | 23,887 | 79.17 | 1.15 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 884 | 371.65 | 5.23 | 25,731 | 85.58 | 1.15 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 960 | 429.60 | 5.89 | 26,009 | 87.04 | 1.14 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 823 | 376.87 | 5.58 | 24,432 | 82.65 | 1.16 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 702 | 332.05 | 5.48 | 23,686 | 81.16 | 1.27 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 180 | 86.40 | 4.88 | 7,206 | 24.82 | 1.30 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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New Charlton Compared to Other Greenwich Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Woolwich Dockyard | 172 | 70.53 | 76% safer |
| Charlton | 1,617 | 73.20 | 75% safer |
| Westcombe Park | 989 | 73.82 | 75% safer |
| North Greenwich | 1,566 | 119.16 | 59% safer |
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