Crime Statistics for Bough Beech, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 6 street level crime incidents in Bough Beech in June 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Burglary2
Violent Crime2
Anti Social Behaviour1
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime6

Map of street level crime incidents in June 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bough Beech. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.



Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bough Beech

We've taken the ten nearest places to Bough Beech and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Bough Beech has more crime than other surrounding areas.

LocationCrime Incidents
Marlpit Hill (3.16 miles)87
Edenbridge (3.1 miles)71
Pootings (3.1 miles)14
Bough Beech6
Eden (1.87 miles)5
Four Elms (2.24 miles)3
Hever (1.75 miles)2
Chiddingstone (0.62 miles)1
Bough Beech Reservoir (0.95 miles)1
Hanging Bank (3.17 miles)0

8.2%
of Leigh and Chiddingstone Causeway residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bough Beech?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bough Beech and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

LocationViolent Incidents
Marlpit Hill33
Edenbridge30
Eden4
Bough Beech2
Four Elms2
Hever2
Pootings1
Chiddingstone1
Bough Beech Reservoir0
Hanging Bank0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bough Beech?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Bough Beech to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Bough Beech compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bough Beech and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bough Beech is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Edenbridge South and West70
2Westerham and Crockham Hill64
3Seal and Weald53
4Cowden and Hever50
5Rusthall50
6Edenbridge North and East48
7Judd46
8Penshurst, Fordcombe and Chiddingstone41
9Leigh and Chiddingstone Causeway28
10Hildenborough12
11Speldhurst and Bidborough12

Which road in Bough Beech has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bough Beech with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Red Leaf Close.

Last updated: June 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0



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