Crime Statistics for Kevingtown, London, Bromley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kevingtown in October 2024. There were a total of 189 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Kevingtown, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	59
Shoplifting	36
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Vehicle Crime	17
Drugs	7
Public Order	5
Other Theft	5
Robbery	5
Other Crime	3
Burglary	2
Theft From The Person	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	189

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Paul’s Cray (1.75 miles)	444
St Mary Cray (1.24 miles)	295
Broom Hill (1.96 miles)	193
Chelsfield (2.24 miles)	191
Kevingtown	189
Ramsden (0.88 miles)	182
Crofton (2.55 miles)	140
Ruxley (2.13 miles)	102
Hockenden (0.88 miles)	42
Crockenhill (1.24 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near Kevingtown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Paul’s Cray	228
St Mary Cray	110
Ramsden	107
Kevingtown	59
Crofton	50
Broom Hill	49
Ruxley	36
Chelsfield	30
Crockenhill	15
Hockenden	14

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

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 Kevingtown 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 Kevingtown compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kevingtown and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Kevingtown have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Crockenhill and Well Hill.

#	Ward	Score
1	Crockenhill and Well Hill	92
2	Swanley St Mary's	92
3	Swanley White Oak	81
4	Cray Valley East	79
5	Cray Valley West	74
6	Orpington	55
7	Chislehurst	55
8	St Mary's & St James	50
9	Petts Wood and Knoll	29
10	Farnborough and Crofton	21
11	Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom	18

Which road in Kevingtown has the highest level of crime?

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