Falconwood & Welling
WardWest Bexley. About 17,216 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 1% of people in Falconwood & Welling live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Falconwood & Welling compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Falconwood & Welling safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Falconwood & Welling at a rate of 72.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 78.1 per 1,000 people across Bexley.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 118 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Falconwood & Welling.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (290), shoplifting (236) and anti-social behaviour (229).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Bexley
These figures are published for the whole of Bexley, not for each ward, so they describe all of Bexley and not Falconwood & Welling alone. See Bexley
Falconwood & Welling in brief
Falconwood & Welling had 16,577 usual residents at the census.
About 1% of people in Falconwood & Welling live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Falconwood & Welling, 98.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Falconwood & Welling, 3.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.