Abbey Wood
WardNorth east Greenwich. About 18,421 people in 2.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 70% of people in Abbey Wood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Abbey Wood compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Abbey Wood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Abbey Wood at a rate of 104.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 112.6 per 1,000 people across Greenwich.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 201 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Abbey Wood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (567), anti-social behaviour (341) and other crime (276).
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 Greenwich
These figures are published for the whole of Greenwich, not for each ward, so they describe all of Greenwich and not Abbey Wood alone. See Greenwich
Abbey Wood in brief
Abbey Wood had 17,685 usual residents at the census.
About 70% of people in Abbey Wood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Abbey Wood, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Abbey Wood, 5.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.