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 2026 Community Safety Survey will be open from 14 September - 31 October.
Phases
2025 Survey Results
The results from the 2025 survey (September - October 2025) contributed to the chosen priorities set out in the 2026 Joint Strategic Assessment published July 2026.
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 506 respondents to the 2025 Bexley Community Safety Survey compared to 479 in 2024. In 2025, the average safety score was 6.35 out of 10 (10 being the most safe) compared to 6.05 in 2025. In the 2025 survey, the number one crime priority for respondents was Burglary (11.7%), followed by Drug Related Issues (10.5%), and Vehicle Crime (9.0%). 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%). The number one Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) priority in 2024 and 2025 was ASB from Groups Loitering with 24.0% and 21.2% respectively, followed by Littering and Drug Paraphernalia in both 2024 and 2025. 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.
