Crime Statistics for Eynsford, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Eynsford in August 2024. There were a total of 13 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Violent Crime	3
Public Order	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Other Theft	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	13

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Eynsford. 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 Eynsford

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Crockenhill (2.24 miles)	53
Horton Kirby (2.63 miles)	23
Speed Gate (2.48 miles)	22
Badgers Mount (3.1 miles)	15
Fawkham Green (3.1 miles)	14
Timberden Bottom (2.24 miles)	14
Eynsford	13
Shoreham (2.78 miles)	13
Farningham (0.88 miles)	13
Maypole (2.77 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Eynsford?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Crockenhill	27
Horton Kirby	14
Speed Gate	13
Timberden Bottom	9
Fawkham Green	7
Badgers Mount	6
Shoreham	5
Eynsford	3
Farningham	3
Maypole	3

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

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 Eynsford 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 Eynsford compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Eynsford and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Eynsford is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Crockenhill and Well Hill	92
2	Swanley St Mary's	92
3	Swanley White Oak	81
4	Farningham, Horton Kirby and South Darenth	67
5	Wilmington, Sutton-at-Hone & Hawley	65
6	Hextable	59
7	Orpington	55
8	Swanley Christchurch and Swanley Village	50
9	Eynsford	45
10	Kemsing	36
11	Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom	18

Which road in Eynsford has the highest level of crime?

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