Crime Statistics for Bessels Green, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bessels Green in October 2024. There were a total of 22 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bessels Green, 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	7
Burglary	5
Other Theft	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Shoplifting	1
Drugs	1
Public Order	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	22

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 Bessels Green. 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 Bessels Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greatness (1.96 miles)	102
Dunton Green (1.39 miles)	58
Longford (1.39 miles)	58
Dryhill (0.62 miles)	35
Bessels Green	22
Chipstead (0.88 miles)	21
Twitton (2.56 miles)	11
Chevening (1.75 miles)	6
Hanging Bank (2.78 miles)	2
Bayley’s Hill (2.56 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Bessels Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Longford	32
Greatness	27
Dunton Green	19
Dryhill	8
Twitton	8
Chevening	8
Bessels Green	7
Chipstead	7
Hanging Bank	2
Bayley’s Hill	0

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

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 Bessels Green 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 Bessels Green compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sevenoaks Northern	69
2	Westerham and Crockham Hill	64
3	Sevenoaks Eastern	59
4	Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge	47
5	Dunton Green and Riverhead	45
6	Otford and Shoreham	44
7	Halstead, Knockholt and Badgers Mount	37
8	Wrotham, Ightham and Stansted	37
9	Kemsing	36
10	Sevenoaks Town and St John's	35
11	Sevenoaks Kippington	27

Which road in Bessels Green has the highest level of crime?

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