Borough safety · Inner London · data through June 2026

How safe is Greenwich, London?

Greenwich, London covers 23 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Inner London index. Its median safety index is 79/100 — above the Inner London median of 59, so a typical neighbourhood here reads safer than a typical one across Inner London. Eltham Park & Progress scores highest at 92/100; Woolwich Arsenal lowest at 57/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighbourhood's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 15 of 23 neighbourhoods here rate low risk, 8 moderate, 0 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighbourhood in Greenwich, safest first

Neighbourhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Eltham Park & Progress	92/100	Low risk	57
2 Eltham Town & Avery Hill	88/100	Low risk	93
3 Middle Park & Horn Park	88/100	Low risk	85
4 Thamesmead Moorings	84/100	Low risk	120
5 Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham	82/100	Low risk	134
6 Shooters Hill	82/100	Low risk	132
7 Blackheath Westcombe	80/100	Low risk	223
8 Charlton Village & Riverside	80/100	Low risk	154
9 Eltham Page	80/100	Low risk	154
10 Kidbrooke Park	80/100	Low risk	149
11 Kidbrooke Village & Sutcliffe	80/100	Low risk	158
12 Plumstead Common	79/100	Low risk	169
13 West Thamesmead	79/100	Low risk	158
14 Charlton Hornfair	78/100	Low risk	173
15 Abbey Wood	75/100	Low risk	210
16 Greenwich Park	74/100	Moderate	237
17 Greenwich Peninsula	74/100	Moderate	243
18 East Greenwich	73/100	Moderate	262
19 Plumstead & Glyndon	66/100	Moderate	318
20 Woolwich Dockyard	66/100	Moderate	340
21 Greenwich Creekside	64/100	Moderate	389
22 Woolwich Common	59/100	Moderate	452
23 Woolwich Arsenal	57/100	Moderate	475

How Greenwich compares across Inner London

Boroughs (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Greenwich (this page)	79/100	23
Wandsworth	75/100	22
Lewisham	70/100	19
Hammersmith and Fulham	61/100	21
Kensington and Chelsea	59/100	18
Lambeth	56/100	25
Hackney	56/100	21
Southwark	55/100	23
Camden	55/100	20
Tower Hamlets	55/100	20
Westminster	51/100	18
Islington	48/100	17

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Greenwich, London?

Eltham Park & Progress has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Greenwich, London, at 92/100 (low risk), from 57 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Eltham Town & Avery Hill (88/100) and Middle Park & Horn Park (88/100) follow.

Which neighbourhood in Greenwich, London has the most reported crime?

Woolwich Arsenal has the lowest index in Greenwich, London, at 57/100, with 475 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. A low score means more is reported around that centre, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Greenwich, London safe?

Across its 23 neighbourhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 79/100, against 59 across Inner London. 15 rate low risk, 8 moderate, 0 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the borough — check the individual neighbourhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each police-recorded incident by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighbourhood centre, and normalises against national crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for Greenwich, London is the median of its 23 neighbourhoods — the borough is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident published by the police (via data.police.uk, Open Government Licence) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre (ONS December 2025 ward centroids), and normalise onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Incident locations are anonymised by the police to nearby snap points, so the maps show streets rather than exact addresses. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighbourhoods within Inner London. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — London's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.