Beckenham and Penge

England · E14001083

9,613 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
9,613
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
2,458 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

902/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesrising2,45825.6%
Anti-social behaviourrising1,86819.4%
Vehicle crimefalling1,10211.5%
Shopliftingfalling9299.7%
Other theftfalling6406.7%
Criminal damage & arsonrising6156.4%
Public orderrising5255.5%
Burglaryfalling4454.6%
Drugsrising3713.9%
Robberyrising2452.5%
Theft from the personrising2022.1%
Other crimerising981.0%
Bicycle theftrising640.7%
Possession of weaponsrising510.5%

The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.

Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this
Source
Street-level crime
Publisher
data.police.uk (Home Office)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Retrieved
2026-09-18
How it's mapped
Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.

Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.

Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.