Crime Statistics for Crockenhill, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Crockenhill in October 2024. There were a total of 40 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Crockenhill, 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	15
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Burglary	4
Public Order	4
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Shoplifting	2
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	40

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 Crockenhill. 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 Crockenhill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Mary Cray (2.48 miles)	295
Hextable (1.96 miles)	237
Kevingtown (1.24 miles)	189
Ramsden (1.96 miles)	182
Ruxley (2.31 miles)	102
Hockenden (0.88 miles)	42
Crockenhill	23
Farningham (2.55 miles)	16
Maypole (2.56 miles)	14
Eynsford (2.24 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Crockenhill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Mary Cray	110
Ramsden	107
Hextable	71
Kevingtown	59
Ruxley	36
Crockenhill	15
Hockenden	14
Maypole	3
Farningham	2
Eynsford	0

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

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 Crockenhill 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 Crockenhill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Crockenhill and Well Hill	92
2	Swanley St Mary's	92
3	Swanley White Oak	81
4	Cray Valley East	79
5	Farningham, Horton Kirby and South Darenth	67
6	Hextable	59
7	Orpington	55
8	Swanley Christchurch and Swanley Village	50
9	St Mary's & St James	50
10	Eynsford	45
11	Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom	18

Which road in Crockenhill has the highest level of crime?

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