BCSP Community Safety Survey
Each Autumn, we ask residents “How safe do you feel in Bexley and what concerns you the most?”. This helps the Bexley Community Safety Partnership set its priorities for the following financial year.
Each Spring, the priorities are published in the annual Joint Strategic Assessment, which also includes an annual overview of crime statistics and the survey results.
The 2025 Community Safety Survey is open 17 September - 31 October.
Phases
2024 Full Survey Results
The results from the full survey (September - October 2024) contributed to the chosen priorities set out in the 2025 Joint Strategic Assessment.
The survey results are shown last in the list of Crime data used on the Overview of Crime data page. For historic purposes these have been copied below.
There was a total of 479 respondents to the 2024 Bexley Community Safety Survey compared to 708 in 2023. In 2024, the average safety score was 6.05 out of 10 (10 being the most safe) compared to 6.18 in 2023. In the 2024 survey, the number one crime priority for respondents was Vehicle Crime (17.4%), followed by Burglary (16.7%), and Drug-related issues (14.2%). In the 2023 survey, the number one crime priority for respondents was Burglary (17.4%) followed by Drug-related issues (16.2%) and Vehicle Crime (11.4%). The number one Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) priority in 2023 and 2024 was ASB from Groups Loitering with 19.9% and 24.0% respectively, followed by Drug Paraphernalia (17.2%) and Dog Fouling (11.2%) in 2023, and Littering (12.8%) and Drug Paraphernalia (11.8%) in 2024. These concerns closely mirror our findings from the data in this JSA, with the exception of Violence Against the Person Offences, and help contribute to the BCSP priority decision-making process.
