West Heath
WardNorth west Bexley. About 16,071 people in 2.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 5% of people in West Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How West Heath compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is West Heath safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in West Heath at a rate of 48.3 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, 50 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in West Heath.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (249), anti-social behaviour (114) and other crime (97).
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 West Heath alone. See Bexley
West Heath in brief
West Heath had 15,940 usual residents at the census.
About 5% of people in West Heath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In West Heath, 98.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In West Heath, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.