Borough safety · Inner London · data through August 2026

How safe is Greenwich, London?

Greenwich, London covers 23 neighbourhoods in SafeRoute's Inner London index. Its median safety index is 80/100 — above the Inner London median of 60, so a typical neighbourhood here reads safer than a typical one across Inner London. Eltham Park & Progress scores highest at 95/100; Woolwich Arsenal lowest at 61/100.

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	95/100	Low risk	34
2 Eltham Town & Avery Hill	92/100	Low risk	74
3 Middle Park & Horn Park	89/100	Low risk	84
4 Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham	88/100	Low risk	95
5 Thamesmead Moorings	85/100	Low risk	121
6 Shooters Hill	83/100	Low risk	133
7 Kidbrooke Park	82/100	Low risk	133
8 West Thamesmead	81/100	Low risk	154
9 Charlton Hornfair	80/100	Low risk	172
10 Charlton Village & Riverside	80/100	Low risk	175
11 Eltham Page	80/100	Low risk	158
12 Kidbrooke Village & Sutcliffe	80/100	Low risk	148
13 Blackheath Westcombe	78/100	Low risk	219
14 Plumstead Common	76/100	Low risk	218
15 Abbey Wood	75/100	Low risk	249
16 Greenwich Peninsula	74/100	Moderate	256
17 East Greenwich	71/100	Moderate	296
18 Greenwich Park	70/100	Moderate	316
19 Woolwich Dockyard	69/100	Moderate	304
20 Plumstead & Glyndon	67/100	Moderate	334
21 Greenwich Creekside	63/100	Moderate	436
22 Woolwich Common	63/100	Moderate	385
23 Woolwich Arsenal	61/100	Moderate	435

How Greenwich compares across Inner London

Boroughs (safest first)	Median index	Neighbourhoods
Greenwich (this page)	80/100	23
Wandsworth	75/100	22
Lewisham	74/100	19
Hammersmith and Fulham	62/100	21
Kensington and Chelsea	60/100	18
Hackney	59/100	21
Lambeth	58/100	25
Southwark	57/100	23
Camden	57/100	20
Tower Hamlets	54/100	20
Islington	50/100	17
Westminster	48/100	18

Common questions

What is the safest neighbourhood in Greenwich, London?

Eltham Park & Progress has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Greenwich, London, at 95/100 (low risk), from 34 reported incidents within 1 km of its centre. Eltham Town & Avery Hill (92/100) and Middle Park & Horn Park (89/100) follow.

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

Woolwich Arsenal has the lowest index in Greenwich, London, at 61/100, with 435 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 80/100, against 60 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.