Crime Statistics for Bayley’s Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bayley’s Hill in September 2024. There was only 1 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Criminal Damage Arson1
All Crime1

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 Bayley’s Hill. 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 Bayley’s Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Bessels Green (2.56 miles)10
Dryhill (2.78 miles)9
Oakhurst (1.96 miles)6
Underriver (2.55 miles)4
Bayley’s Hill1
Toys Hill (2.48 miles)1
Hanging Bank (1.86 miles)1
Underriver Ho (3.16 miles)1
Ide Hill (1.86 miles)1
Bough Beech Reservoir (2.42 miles)0

12.26%
of Seal and Weald residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bayley’s Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bessels Green5
Dryhill2
Oakhurst2
Underriver1
Underriver Ho1
Bayley’s Hill0
Toys Hill0
Hanging Bank0
Ide Hill0
Bough Beech Reservoir0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bayley’s Hill?

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 Bayley’s Hill 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 Bayley’s Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bayley’s Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bayley’s Hill is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1Sevenoaks Northern69
2Westerham and Crockham Hill64
3Sevenoaks Eastern59
4Seal and Weald53
5Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge47
6Dunton Green and Riverhead45
7Otford and Shoreham44
8Sevenoaks Town and St John's35
9Leigh and Chiddingstone Causeway28
10Sevenoaks Kippington27
11Hildenborough12

Which road in Bayley’s Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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