West Wickham
WardWest Bromley. About 14,754 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 29% of people in West Wickham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How West Wickham compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is West Wickham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in West Wickham at a rate of 51.1 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, 58 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in West Wickham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (163), vehicle crime (143) and shoplifting (133).
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 West Wickham alone. See Bromley
West Wickham in brief
West Wickham had 14,771 usual residents at the census.
About 29% of people in West Wickham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In West Wickham, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In West Wickham, 1.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.