Crime Statistics for Bean, Dartford, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bean in October 2024. There were a total of 67 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bean, 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	19
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Crime	7
Drugs	4
Other Theft	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Public Order	2
Shoplifting	2
Burglary	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	67

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 Bean. 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 Bean

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stone (1.39 miles)	402
Greenhithe (1.86 miles)	295
Knockhall (1.39 miles)	239
Bean	67
Stonewood (0.62 miles)	46
Lane End (1.39 miles)	41
South Darenth (2.24 miles)	23
Green Street Green (1.24 miles)	13
Betsham (1.39 miles)	11
Southfleet (1.96 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Bean?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stone	138
Knockhall	116
Greenhithe	69
Stonewood	24
Bean	19
Lane End	11
South Darenth	5
Green Street Green	3
Southfleet	2
Betsham	1

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

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 Bean 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 Bean compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bean and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bean is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Swanscombe	86
2	Stone House	85
3	Ebbsfleet	84
4	Greenhithe & Knockhall	83
5	Bean & Village Park	77
6	Princes	76
7	Darenth	71
8	Stone Castle	70
9	Brent	68
10	Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet	55
11	Fawkham and West Kingsdown	51

Which road in Bean has the highest level of crime?

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