Castle Green is about as safe as the rest of Barking and Dagenham, slightly worse but not by enough to notice. Its crime rate is a fraction above the borough's. Violence and sexual offences make up about the same share here as they do nationally. Car crime is the one category that stands out. For anyone who keeps their car on the street, that is the figure that matters most.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 7,166 crimes in and around Castle Green in the year to May 2026, a published rate of about 115 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 2% above the average for Barking and Dagenham as a whole. The published rate uses its own population base, so it won't match a sum done on the back of an envelope with the headline population.
For comparison, the Barking and Dagenham rate over the same twelve months was about 112 crimes per 1,000 residents, against Castle Green's 115. Few people would notice a gap that size from one street to the next.
Castle Green is a crowded place. It averages about 9,800 people per square kilometre, about 17% of households are overcrowded and unemployment stood at about 5% at the 2021 Census. These describe the neighbourhood, and none of them explains the crime figures on its own. They do mean that with so many neighbours this close, few incidents go unseen.
The crime mix looks broadly normal until the cars come into it. Violence and sexual offences make up about 34% of the area's recorded crime, close to the 35% share across England and Wales. That category also includes common assault without injury, and it is the biggest category almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour accounts for about 18% against 16% nationally, other theft about 6% against 7%, criminal damage and arson about 6% against 7%, and drugs about 5% against 4%. Vehicle crime makes up about 10% of the total here, compared with 5% nationally. On an estate of terraced streets laid out before most families owned a car, parking is mostly kerbside. Whether a house has its own off-street space is worth knowing early, and a viewing will show it quickly.
After a crime is reported, the Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases across London, against about 12% nationally. That puts it 33rd of 42 forces. Across the force, about 53% of cases are closed with no suspect identified. These are force-wide figures for the whole of the Met's area, and they measure what happens after a crime has taken place. They don't measure how likely one is to happen in Castle Green.
Castle Green is average for safety, close to the borough's own rate and nothing worse. It's ordinary in most categories, with car crime the one thing that stands out.