Contents

  1. Foreword to the Bexley Community Safety Partnership Strategy
  2. What is the Community Safety Partnership?
  3. Achievements from the 2022 to 2025 strategy
  4. Key legislation
  5. Joint strategic assessment 2025
  6. Our community
  7. Residents' feedback
  8. BCSP priorities 2026 to 2030
  9. Principles and cross-cutting themes
  10. Priority 1: serious violence
  11. Priority 2: domestic abuse
  12. Priority 3: anti-social behaviour
  13. Priority 4: community reassurance
  14. Working in partnership
  15. Delivery plan and measuring success
  16. Further information

7. Our community

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Bexley is a growing population, with 250,853 residents, expected to reach 257,000 by 2030.

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31% of Bexley residents are young people, but we also have the 4th highest rate of people aged 65+.

Private health care

0.76% residents were registered as living with a mental health condition, which is the 2nd lowest in London.

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14.6%, being 36,083 residents, shared that they have a disability.

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Of those who are economically active, 3.8% are unemployed.

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60% of residents are religious - Christian (50%), Muslim (4%) and Hindu (3%).

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2% of adults do not use the internet.

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35.6% of residents are from a Global Majority background. English, Romanian and Panjabi are the top languages.

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Bexley is consistently in the top 6 safest London boroughs.

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13.9% of all households were in need. 15.8% children were in relative low-income families.

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52% of residents are female. Females have higher education levels, and males a higher average income.

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91% of residents shared that they were heterosexual. This means over 4000 people are LGBT+.

For more insights, take a look at Bexley’s Data Hub.