Crime · Erith

Reported crime in central Erith

Name: Erith crime statistics
Creator: police.uk
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

4,260 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 113 per 1,000 residents.

Total incidents

4,260

Rate / 1,000

113

By category

Category	Incidents	Share
Violence and sexual offences	1,439	34%
Anti social behaviour	871	20%
Vehicle crime	355	8%
Criminal damage and arson	288	7%
Public order	281	7%
Other theft	256	6%
Drugs	225	5%
Shoplifting	159	4%
Burglary	156	4%
Robbery	78	2%
Other crime	64	2%
Possession of weapons	41	1%
Theft from the person	35	1%
Bicycle theft	12	0%

Category by month

Category	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Total
Violence and sexual offences	110	114	127	110	118	109	109	111	136	120	128	147	1439
Anti social behaviour	95	84	70	77	60	59	48	67	81	82	69	79	871
Vehicle crime	17	29	18	26	31	34	35	33	34	17	39	42	355
Criminal damage and arson	28	24	29	18	48	30	27	19	31	30	2	2	288
Public order	28	19	25	33	22	15	10	23	25	24	24	33	281
Other theft	20	17	26	26	20	25	23	14	21	22	23	19	256
Drugs	14	6	27	30	23	31	26	17	27	9	6	9	225
Shoplifting	13	9	11	16	16	6	17	6	11	10	17	27	159
Burglary	9	9	18	6	10	8	9	14	13	22	25	13	156
Robbery	5	4	11	10	4	7	5	2	2	4	4	20	78
Other crime	8	5	6	4	2	5	6	3	7	3	8	7	64
Possession of weapons	5	5	2	2	7	2	5	2	2	3	4	2	41
Theft from the person	1	1	3	5	5	2	1	3	6	3	4	1	35
Bicycle theft	1	1		1	1	1	1		3	1	2		12
Total	354	327	373	364	367	334	322	314	399	350	355	401	4260

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police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Erith, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 37,557.