Crime Statistics for Bidborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bidborough in September 2024. There were a total of 14 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bidborough, 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	8
Drugs	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Theft	1
All Crime	14

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 Bidborough. 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 Bidborough

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St John’s (1.75 miles)	284
Southborough (1.39 miles)	142
Modest Corner (0.88 miles)	86
Broomhill Bank (1.86 miles)	79
Speldhurst (1.39 miles)	35
Barden Park (1.96 miles)	30
Bidborough	14
Brook Street (1.39 miles)	8
Stockland Green (0.62 miles)	8
Lower Haysden (1.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Bidborough?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St John’s	88
Southborough	42
Broomhill Bank	31
Modest Corner	29
Speldhurst	8
Bidborough	8
Barden Park	7
Brook Street	3
Lower Haysden	2
Stockland Green	1

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

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 Bidborough 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 Bidborough compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sherwood	55
2	Rusthall	50
3	Judd	46
4	Southborough North	45
5	Southborough and High Brooms	45
6	Penshurst, Fordcombe and Chiddingstone	41
7	St James'	37
8	Vauxhall	34
9	St John's	32
10	Culverden	30
11	Speldhurst and Bidborough	12

Which road in Bidborough has the highest level of crime?

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