Crime Statistics for Matfield, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Matfield in September 2024. There were a total of 29 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	16
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Violent Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	29

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 Matfield. 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 Matfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Paddock Wood (2.24 miles)	48
Henwood Green (1.39 miles)	45
Pembury (1.96 miles)	41
Matfield	16
Mile Oak (2.24 miles)	7
Old Cryals (0.88 miles)	3
Palmer’s Green (1.86 miles)	2
Brenchley (1.24 miles)	1
Lamberhurst Quarter (1.86 miles)	0
Chillmill (1.39 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Matfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Henwood Green	19
Pembury	19
Paddock Wood	13
Matfield	3
Mile Oak	2
Old Cryals	0
Palmer’s Green	0
Brenchley	0
Lamberhurst Quarter	0
Chillmill	0

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

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 Matfield 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 Matfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sherwood	55
2	Southborough North	45
3	Southborough and High Brooms	45
4	Capel	39
5	St James'	37
6	St John's	32
7	Paddock Wood West	31
8	Paddock Wood East	28
9	Pembury	27
10	Brenchley and Horsmonden	21
11	Frant & Wadhurst	15

Which road in Matfield has the highest level of crime?

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