London · Neighbourhood crime trends

London Bromley (east)

Name: Crimes per 1,000 residents by neighbourhood, Bromley (east), Q1 2023 to Q2 2026
Creator: CrimesLog

17 neighbourhoods - a quarterly race to the lowest crime rate.

Crime Trends: Neighbourhoods compared - each quarter from Q1 2023

London as a whole averaged 28.0 crimes for every 1,000 residents per quarter in Q2 2026, while east Bromley averaged 18.3 (leaving out 4 places with almost no residents), hence it is generally safer when all crimes are considered.

How do the 17 neighbourhoods of east Bromley compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 2,972 crimes across them, 18.3 for every 1,000 residents. That is 4.1% below a year earlier and 13.6% above Q1 2023, the first quarter we track.

Chelsfield has the lowest rate of the everyday neighbourhoods (10.3 per 1,000), followed by Chislehurst (11.1) and Petts Wood (12.5). St Mary Cray has the highest (28.0).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 17 LONDON BROMLEY (EAST) NEIGHBOURHOODs race across 14 quarter periods from Q1 2023 to Q2 2026 - one crime category at a time or all together. The race chart can be used to compare average crime rates by category against London's average.

Neighbourhood areas derived by CrimesLog from rail station locations (NaPTAN, Department for Transport) and OS Open Names. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024; contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

A little history

Bromley (east) in London. London has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years, and its ancient core, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium. Bromley (east) lies in the London Borough of Bromley, the south-easternmost borough of Greater London, which was part of Kent until 1965. It is a mix of suburban districts and villages, including Orpington, Chislehurst and Biggin Hill, with some villages lying beyond London's urban sprawl.

Notable neighbourhoods in Bromley (east) include:

Downe and Keston Mark. Downe, formerly Down, is a village within the London Borough of Bromley that was part of Kent until 1965. The naturalist Charles Darwin lived in Down House for forty years until his death in 1882. Keston is a village that is part suburban, part rural; its northern, more suburban part is sometimes called Keston Mark.

Orpington and St Mary Cray. Orpington is a town within the London Borough of Bromley, close to the border with Kent. St Mary Cray is a suburb of Orpington, north of the town centre. Historically it was a market town in the county of Kent.

Lowest rate (everyday)

Chelsfield

10.3 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

St Mary Cray

28.0 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

18.3 per 1,000

4.1% below a year earlier ·

13.6% above Q1 2023

Compared

17 neighbourhoods

162,570 residents · 14 quarters

London Bromley (east) neighbourhood quarterly crime race

Press ▶︎ to watch Q1 2023 to Q2 2026. Tick one crime category or several; hover a bar for the neighbourhood. Property crimes includes burglaries and thefts.

Crime categories

<Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Bromley London Petten Grove and Ramsden Estate/Chelsfield Lane II, L3-31.Jpg</Div>, Chelsfield

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Downe Primary School, Downe — **Downe** · Downe Primary School
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Cudham Church, Kent, England, 20 Sept. 2010, Cudham — **Cudham** · Cudham Church, Kent, England, 20 Sept. 2010
Photo: In Memoriam: PhillipC, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

Orpington Library by Night, Orpington — **Orpington** · Orpington Library by Night
Photo: librariesteam, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

Swanley Offices, Swanley — **Swanley** · Swanley Offices
Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

Charles Darwin School, London 2, Biggin Hill — **Biggin Hill** · Charles Darwin School, London 2
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Downe Village Hall, Downe — **Downe** · Downe Village Hall
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Orpington Priory, Orpington — **Orpington** · Orpington Priory
Photo: It's No Game, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

How neighbourhoods moved each quarter

2023

Whole-area crime rate 16.1 to 18.8 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2023).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Downe 13th→7th (Q2) South Street 12th→8th (Q2) moved down Leaves Green 6th→12th (Q2) South Street 8th→2nd (Q3) Downe 7th→3rd (Q3) Leaves Green 12th→7th (Q3) Swanley 17th→8th (Q3) Berry's Green 3rd→10th (Q3) Berry's Green 10th→1st (Q4) Keston Mark 11th→6th (Q4) South Street 2nd→9th (Q4) Chislehurst 6th→10th (Q4) Swanley 8th→13th (Q4)

2024

Whole-area crime rate 18.3 to 19.9 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2024).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up South Street 9th→1st (Q1) Petts Wood 7th→3rd (Q1) Bickley 14th→9th (Q1) moved down Keston Mark 6th→10th (Q1) Berry's Green 1st→13th (Q1) Hazelwood 5th→1st (Q2) Berry's Green 13th→4th (Q2) Chelsfield 2nd→10th (Q2) Downe 7th→3rd (Q3) South Street 2nd→7th (Q3) Orpington 14th→10th (Q3) moved up Swanley 17th→13th (Q3) Leaves Green 9th→14th (Q3) South Street 7th→3rd (Q4) Leaves Green 14th→7th (Q4) Swanley 13th→8th (Q4) moved down Chislehurst 5th→10th (Q4) Keston Mark 9th→13th (Q4) Orpington 10th→14th (Q4)

2025

Whole-area crime rate 18.3 to 19.1 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Knockholt 17th→9th (Q1) Biggin Hill 15th→11th (Q1) moved down Leaves Green 7th→14th (Q1) Elmstead Woods 11th→15th (Q1) Swanley 8th→16th (Q1) Swanley 16th→6th (Q2) Hazelwood 2nd→7th (Q2) South Street 6th→13th (Q2) Knockholt 9th→16th (Q2) Cudham 8th→1st (Q3) Keston Mark 11th→6th (Q3) moved up South Street 13th→8th (Q3) Swanley 6th→10th (Q3) moved down Biggin Hill 10th→14th (Q3) Bickley 9th→15th (Q3) Hazelwood 9th→1st (Q4) South Street 8th→3rd (Q4) Biggin Hill 14th→9th (Q4) Keston Mark 6th→10th (Q4) Bickley 15th→11th (Q4) Swanley 10th→15th (Q4)

2026

Whole-area crime rate 17.3 to 18.3 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Swanley 15th→6th (Q1) Orpington 14th→10th (Q1) moved down Hazelwood 1st→11th (Q1) Downe 5th→14th (Q1) Keston Mark 10th→15th (Q1) Hazelwood 11th→1st (Q2) Downe 14th→3rd (Q2) Leaves Green 12th→5th (Q2) Cudham 1st→11th (Q2) Swanley 6th→13th (Q2) Biggin Hill 9th→14th (Q2)

Reported Safety Incidents

In Q2 2026: violent incidents were 31% (924), public order incidents were 29% (868), property incidents were 27% (798) and vehicle crimes were 13% (382).

Recorded crime here is grouped into violent crime, property crime (burglary and theft), vehicle crime and public order offences, so you can compare how safe each neighbourhood is for the kind of crime that matters to you.

Places we left out, and places to read with care

Left out: Farthing Street; Horns Green; Luxted; Single Street. They have almost no residents: their crimes are against visitors, so a rate per resident says little about living there.

Hazelwood (3.4 per 1,000 from 1 crime among 296 residents), Cudham (19.2 per 1,000 from 7 crimes among 365 residents), Berry's Green (6.5 per 1,000 from 4 crimes among 617 residents), South Street (7.0 per 1,000 from 6 crimes among 856 residents), Downe (6.9 per 1,000 from 6 crimes among 873 residents), Knockholt (26.4 per 1,000 from 25 crimes among 946 residents), Swanley (20.7 per 1,000 from 22 crimes among 1,065 residents), Leaves Green (8.7 per 1,000 from 13 crimes among 1,499 residents) and Keston Mark (25.2 per 1,000 from 38 crimes among 1,509 residents) are places with few residents (under 3,000): a rate on so few people says little about living there, so they are not named as the lowest or highest.

The 17 neighbourhoods on the map

Bromley (east) is made of 17 neighbourhoods compared here, each in its own colour on the map. They are neighbourhood areas derived by CrimesLog from rail station locations and OS Open Names: 162,570 residents between them.

Berry's Green
Bickley
Biggin Hill
Chelsfield
Chislehurst
Cudham
Downe
Elmstead Woods
Hazelwood
Keston Mark
Knockholt
Leaves Green
Orpington
Petts Wood
South Street
St Mary Cray
Swanley

All 17 neighbourhoods, Q2 2026

Crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026, lowest first. The last two columns compare with Q1 2023.
#	Neighbourhood	Residents	All	Violent	Property	Vehicle	Public order	Rate vs Q1 2023	Places gained
1	Hazelwood †	296	3.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.4	67%	3
2	Berry's Green †	617	6.5	1.6	0.0	0.0	4.9	33%	1
3	Downe †	873	6.9	1.1	2.3	1.1	2.3	60%	10
4	South Street †	856	7.0	2.3	2.3	1.2	1.2	57%	8
5	Leaves Green †	1,499	8.7	0.7	2.0	1.3	4.7	24%	1
6	Chelsfield	14,213	10.3	3.7	2.5	1.8	2.4	16%	4
7	Chislehurst	8,138	11.1	3.0	2.3	2.2	3.6	10%	–
8	Petts Wood	16,027	12.5	2.8	3.6	1.9	4.2	20%	3
9	Bickley	19,471	12.9	4.6	2.1	1.6	4.6	13%	–
10	Elmstead Woods	14,649	17.1	4.4	4.0	2.9	5.7	17%	2
11	Cudham †	365	19.2	5.5	0.0	11.0	2.7	Infinity%	10
12	Orpington	36,948	19.2	6.7	5.8	1.6	5.1	22%	1
13	Swanley †	1,065	20.7	5.6	5.6	1.9	7.5	10%	2
14	Biggin Hill	9,229	21.7	7.3	7.5	1.1	5.8	41%	4
15	Keston Mark †	1,509	25.2	4.6	8.6	2.6	9.3	46%	1
16	Knockholt †	946	26.4	5.3	7.4	4.2	9.5	22%	1
17	St Mary Cray	35,869	28.0	8.7	7.5	4.1	7.8	16%	1

† Hazelwood, Cudham, Berry's Green, South Street, Downe, Knockholt, Swanley, Leaves Green and Keston Mark are places with few residents. A rate on a very small number of residents or crimes is not comparable with the others.

Photographs

13 photographs of the 17 neighbourhoods run along the reel; click one to see it full size. Each is credited here and under the large view.

All 13 photographs and their credits

Downe · Downe Primary School. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chelsfield · <Div Class='fn'> Tower Blocks UK: Bromley London Petten Grove and Ramsden Estate/Chelsfield Lane II, L3-31.Jpg</Div>. Photo: Miles Glendinning, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cudham · Cudham Church, Kent, England, 20 Sept. 2010. Photo: In Memoriam: PhillipC, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Orpington · Orpington Library by Night. Photo: librariesteam, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Swanley · Swanley Offices. Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Biggin Hill · Charles Darwin School, London 2. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Downe · Downe Village Hall. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Orpington · Orpington Priory. Photo: It's No Game, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Swanley · Swanley Houses2. Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Biggin Hill · Charles Darwin School, London. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Orpington · The Maxwell. Photo: It's No Game, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Swanley · Swanley House. Photo: satguru, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr
Orpington · A Morning.... Photo: Shadi Hijazi, CC BY 2.0 · Flickr

Sources and notes

CrimesLog sources crime incident data as published by the UK Home Office through their national data portal at data.police.uk and licensed under their Open Government Licence v3.0. Reported crime incidents originate from individual Territorial Police Forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Contains ONS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains NISRA data © Crown copyright. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Rates are recorded crimes per 1,000 residents, quarter by quarter; where a neighbourhood has fewer than 100 residents the rate would be worked out on 100 (those places are left out of the race). A count of recorded crime is not a verdict on any neighbourhood.