Rush Green is a below-par area for safety, with crime running well above the rest of its borough. The police record about 140 crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Havering as a whole manages about 94. Anti-social behaviour and drugs take up more of the total than they do nationally. Anyone moving here from elsewhere in the borough is moving to its busier end.
Police.uk records 5,961 crimes in Rush Green over the twelve months from June 2025 to May 2026, a published rate of about 140 per 1,000 residents. That is roughly 49% higher than the average for Havering. A full year of figures means a single bad month cannot account for it.
Set side by side, the two numbers are about 140 for Rush Green and about 94 for Havering over the same twelve months. Buyers drawn east by Havering's reputation as the calmer corner of outer London are buying into a borough average that this part of it does not match.
Rush Green is a dense suburb, at about 7,560 people per square kilometre on average across its neighbourhoods. About 4% of residents were unemployed at the 2021 census, and about 9% of households were overcrowded. It is a lived-in, busy, built-up piece of London, and those figures describe it without explaining the crime rate. A street-level crime map, checked at the exact address and against the next road over, shows where the incidents are recorded far better than any area average.
The mix is where Rush Green departs from the national picture. Violence and sexual offences, a broad legal grouping that includes common assault with no injury, make up about 31% of recorded crime here against about 35% across England and Wales, so the biggest category is a little smaller than usual. Anti-social behaviour runs at about 21% against 16% nationally, and drug offences at about 8% against 4%. Public order offences and other theft are both about 7%, level with the national shares, and shoplifting is about 7% against 8%. What stands out is the anti-social behaviour and the drugs, both of which neighbours tend to notice from their own front windows.
What happens after a report is a separate question and a force-wide one. The Metropolitan Police charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% nationally, which puts it 33rd of 42 forces in England and Wales. About 53% of its cases close with no suspect identified. None of that says how safe Rush Green is. It says that once a crime has happened, the odds of anyone being charged across London are slim.
Rush Green is one of the less safe parts of its borough, and the gap is wide enough that the choice of street matters as much as the choice of area.