Penge & Cator
WardNorth west Bromley. About 19,234 people in 3.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Penge & Cator live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Penge & Cator compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Penge & Cator safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Penge & Cator at a rate of 129.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 86.7 per 1,000 people across Bromley.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 224 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Penge & Cator.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (621), anti-social behaviour (572) and other crime (398).
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 Bromley
These figures are published for the whole of Bromley, not for each ward, so they describe all of Bromley and not Penge & Cator alone. See Bromley
Penge & Cator in brief
Penge & Cator had 18,911 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Penge & Cator live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Penge & Cator, 95.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Penge & Cator, 5.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.