Crime and Safety in New Eltham, Greenwich
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The most common crime in New Eltham is shoplifting, with 161 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 25. This is 45% higher than 2025's figure of 111 offences and a difference of 7.71 from 2025's crime rate of 17. New Eltham's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 0 offences recorded in 2026, a decrease of 0% from 2025's figure of 1 crime.
New Eltham 2026 Crime Scorecard
17% lower, borough crime rate
London
0.36% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Greenwich is 17% lower than London and 0.36% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Greenwich Crime Rate Over Time
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New Eltham Crime Map
Incidents mapped in New Eltham 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 Eltham's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around New Eltham up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of New Eltham's 52 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 Eltham • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within New Eltham has a crime risk score of 420. This is based on analysis of 52 nearby areas within New Eltham, 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 Eltham's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in New Eltham, crime risk scores are typically around 420, while in Greenwich they are average 597.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 496 (678 for Greenwich), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 532 (Greenwich 733).
Trends in Crime Risk
New Eltham
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 4.1% in New Eltham'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 Eltham's crime risk score is down by 1.0%. While potentially a good indicator of the overall risk trend, analysis may offer further insight when combined with the checks mentioned above.
Over the last year, New Eltham's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 16%, 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
New Eltham
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 Eltham • 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 25 reports per 1,000 people in New Eltham, which is 3.49 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 161 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Metropolitan Police recorded 13 reports of Robbery in New Eltham, resulting in a crime rate of 1.99 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 3.43.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 2.14 times the national average at 0.60 reports per 1,000. This is from 4 crime reports reported to Metropolitan Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
New Eltham
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 0.96 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.23 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 317% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.64 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 3.40 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 52% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.29 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.50 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 158% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
New Eltham
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Theft From the Person offences are trending downwards, though the CrimeRate Index three years ago is too low to measure, and the trend should be reviewed with caution.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.57 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.49 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 16% over this timeframe.
Violence and Sexual Offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.50 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Violence and Sexual Offences CrimeRate Index was 0.95 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 47% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
New Eltham • 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 | 68 | 10.49 | 0.74 | 6,576 | 20.77 | 1.47 | 235,985 | 21.68 | 1.53 |
| Bicycle Theft | - | - | - | 254 | 0.81 | 1.11 | 13,695 | 1.26 | 1.73 |
| Burglary | 21 | 3.23 | 1.24 | 1,395 | 4.40 | 1.41 | 47,359 | 4.34 | 1.39 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 20 | 3.06 | 0.58 | 1,969 | 6.22 | 0.99 | 54,098 | 4.99 | 0.79 |
| Drugs | 18 | 2.77 | 1.21 | 1,803 | 5.69 | 1.84 | 53,167 | 4.87 | 1.58 |
| Other Crime | 7 | 1.07 | 1.75 | 436 | 1.37 | 0.74 | 13,008 | 1.19 | 0.64 |
| Other Theft | 18 | 2.75 | 0.64 | 2,443 | 7.73 | 1.36 | 97,452 | 8.97 | 1.58 |
| Possession of Weapons | 4 | 0.60 | 2.14 | 207 | 0.64 | 0.75 | 6,443 | 0.60 | 0.71 |
| Public Order | 33 | 5.07 | 0.87 | 2,160 | 6.83 | 1.18 | 60,049 | 5.52 | 0.95 |
| Robbery | 13 | 1.99 | 3.43 | 800 | 2.52 | 2.14 | 30,804 | 2.83 | 2.40 |
| Shoplifting | 161 | 24.85 | 3.49 | 2,736 | 8.63 | 1.21 | 87,976 | 8.09 | 1.13 |
| Theft From the Person | 8 | 1.22 | 1.53 | 838 | 2.64 | 1.70 | 77,160 | 7.11 | 4.59 |
| Vehicle Crime | 57 | 8.80 | 2.05 | 2,483 | 7.84 | 1.82 | 81,755 | 7.50 | 1.74 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 109 | 16.83 | 0.55 | 10,059 | 31.79 | 1.05 | 273,434 | 25.12 | 0.83 |
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Total Crime by Year
New Eltham | Greenwich | London | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 469 | 72.24 | 1.12 | 27,583 | 87.11 | 1.21 | 896,400 | 82.39 | 1.14 |
| 2025 | 329 | 51.04 | 0.78 | 27,288 | 86.77 | 1.17 | 896,961 | 83.23 | 1.12 |
| 2024 | 369 | 57.09 | 0.89 | 27,224 | 87.41 | 1.16 | 900,986 | 84.38 | 1.12 |
| 2023 | 338 | 52.78 | 0.78 | 25,732 | 83.74 | 1.06 | 835,471 | 78.98 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 301 | 46.64 | 0.72 | 25,463 | 83.87 | 1.09 | 795,646 | 75.77 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 332 | 52.06 | 0.91 | 23,887 | 79.17 | 1.15 | 727,983 | 69.09 | 1.01 |
| 2020 | 341 | 53.73 | 0.85 | 25,731 | 85.58 | 1.15 | 819,467 | 77.66 | 1.05 |
| 2019 | 387 | 61.10 | 0.93 | 26,009 | 87.04 | 1.14 | 849,310 | 80.70 | 1.06 |
| 2018 | 352 | 55.84 | 0.93 | 24,432 | 82.65 | 1.16 | 810,063 | 77.08 | 1.08 |
| 2017 | 277 | 43.49 | 0.80 | 23,686 | 81.16 | 1.27 | 758,160 | 72.41 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 109 | 17.01 | 0.98 | 7,206 | 24.82 | 1.30 | 234,565 | 22.42 | 1.18 |
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New Eltham Compared to Other Greenwich Neighbourhoods
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| Neighbourhood | Total Crimes | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
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| Coldharbour | 574 | 59.01 | 18% safer |
| Avery Hill | 381 | 62.55 | 13% safer |
| Eltham | 2,336 | 86.71 | 20% more dangerous |
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