Crime Statistics for Brook Street, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Brook Street in October 2024. There were a total of 18 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 Brook Street, 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	9
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Burglary	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	18

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 Brook Street. 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 Brook Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cage Green (1.75 miles)	421
Tonbridge (1.39 miles)	195
Southborough (1.96 miles)	98
Modest Corner (1.86 miles)	54
Barden Park (0.62 miles)	26
Brook Street	18
Lower Haysden (0.62 miles)	10
Bidborough (1.39 miles)	7
Stockland Green (1.96 miles)	6
Stocks Green (1.75 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Brook Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cage Green	157
Southborough	72
Tonbridge	68
Modest Corner	26
Barden Park	11
Brook Street	9
Bidborough	4
Stockland Green	3
Lower Haysden	2
Stocks Green	1

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

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 Brook Street 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 Brook Street compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Medway	61
2	Sherwood	55
3	Cage Green	51
4	Castle	51
5	Judd	46
6	Southborough North	45
7	Southborough and High Brooms	45
8	Capel	39
9	Vauxhall	34
10	Hildenborough	12
11	Speldhurst and Bidborough	12

Which road in Brook Street has the highest level of crime?

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