Crime Statistics for Aylesford, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Aylesford in September 2024. There were a total of 72 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Aylesford, 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	24
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Other Crime	8
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Shoplifting	5
Public Order	5
Other Theft	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Robbery	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	72

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 Aylesford. 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 Aylesford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Allington (1.39 miles)	136
New Hythe (1.39 miles)	80
Ham Hill (1.75 miles)	71
Larkfield (1.24 miles)	60
Little Preston (0.62 miles)	54
Millhall (0.62 miles)	53
Royal British Legion Village (0.62 miles)	48
Aylesford	45
Eccles (1.39 miles)	30
Holt Hill (0.88 miles)	24

Where are the most violent places near Aylesford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Allington	63
New Hythe	26
Aylesford	24
Larkfield	23
Royal British Legion Village	20
Ham Hill	19
Millhall	19
Little Preston	18
Eccles	12
Holt Hill	10

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

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 Aylesford 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 Aylesford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Aylesford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Aylesford is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	East Malling	77
2	Snodland East and Ham Hill	66
3	Larkfield South	51
4	Heath	50
5	Aylesford South	40
6	Larkfield North	37
7	Ditton	32
8	Boxley	31
9	Barming and Teston	28
10	Wateringbury	28
11	Allington	11

Which road in Aylesford has the highest level of crime?

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