Belvedere is less safe than the rest of Bexley, and the extra crime falls more on shop shelves and parked cars than on people. Around 94 crimes are recorded per thousand residents a year. That's about a sixth higher than the borough. Shoplifting and car crime run well above their national share. Violence makes up a slightly smaller slice than it does across the country.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 2,767 crimes in Belvedere in the year from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 94 per 1,000 residents. That's about 17% above the average for the London Borough of Bexley. The rate uses its own official population base, so it won't match a sum done with the census headcount.
Bexley as a whole recorded about 81 crimes per 1,000 residents over the same year, against Belvedere's 94. The town is high for Bexley, and Bexley is one of London's calmer boroughs. That's a different thing from being a dangerous place.
Belvedere is a busy bit of outer London, with about 8,100 people per square kilometre on average. At the 2021 Census about 4% of residents were unemployed and about 9% of households were overcrowded. None of that explains the crime rate by itself. It does describe a working town with plenty of people, shops and car parks within a short walk, which is the kind of place where theft gets recorded.
The mix is where the detail is. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal category that includes common assault without injury, make up about 32% of Belvedere's crime, against about 35% nationally. Anti-social behaviour is about 17% here and 16% nationally, so those two are close. Shoplifting is about 12% against 8%, and vehicle crime about 8% against 5%, and those two gaps are the ones that matter. Criminal damage and arson are level with the national share at about 7%, and other theft is a little below at about 6% against 7%. The extra crime here is mostly about property, which is grim news for a shopkeeper or a car owner and a very different worry from walking home. Look the street up on the police's street-level crime map, and check whether the house is near the shops or a car park.
After a crime is reported, the outcome depends on the force. The Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases across London, against about 12% nationally, putting it 33rd of 42 forces. About 53% of its cases close with nobody identified. That's a measure of what happens once you've been a victim. It says nothing about how likely you are to become one, and it covers the whole of London. Belvedere's last police station, on the corner of Nuxley Road and Woolwich Road, closed in 2015, and reporting a crime now starts with a phone or a screen.
Belvedere is one of the less safe parts of a calm borough, worse than its neighbours mainly because of shop theft and car crime. Buyers should think about which street they're on, but it's not a reason to rule the town out.