Crime Statistics for Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Halstead in September 2024. There were a total of 66 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Drugs, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Drugs	20
Violent Crime	16
Vehicle Crime	8
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Other Crime	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Shoplifting	4
Bicycle Theft	4
All Crime	66

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Halstead. 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 Halstead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chelsfield (2.24 miles)	85
Green Street Green (2.24 miles)	75
Halstead	34
Maypole (1.39 miles)	18
Badgers Mount (0.88 miles)	15
Knockholt (1.24 miles)	12
Rushmore Hill (0.62 miles)	11
Twitton (2.24 miles)	7
Timberden Bottom (1.96 miles)	7
Shoreham (1.86 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Halstead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halstead	16
Chelsfield	13
Green Street Green	11
Maypole	7
Badgers Mount	6
Knockholt	6
Rushmore Hill	2
Twitton	1
Timberden Bottom	1
Shoreham	0

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

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 Halstead 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 Halstead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Crockenhill and Well Hill	92
2	Sevenoaks Northern	69
3	Orpington	55
4	Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge	47
5	Dunton Green and Riverhead	45
6	Eynsford	45
7	Otford and Shoreham	44
8	Darwin	41
9	Halstead, Knockholt and Badgers Mount	37
10	Farnborough and Crofton	21
11	Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom	18

Which road in Halstead has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Halstead with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around London Road.