Crime Statistics for Ferndale, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ferndale in October 2024. There were a total of 514 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ferndale, 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	186
Shoplifting	72
Anti Social Behaviour	70
Criminal Damage Arson	50
Public Order	28
Vehicle Crime	22
Other Theft	22
Other Crime	18
Burglary	16
Drugs	16
Bicycle Theft	6
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	514

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 Ferndale. 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 Ferndale

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ferndale	468
High Brooms (0.62 miles)	439
Sherwood Park (0.62 miles)	245
Royal Tunbridge Wells (0.88 miles)	233
St John’s (0.88 miles)	223
Sandown Park (0.62 miles)	142
Southborough (1.39 miles)	98
Camden Park (1.24 miles)	86
Modest Corner (1.75 miles)	54
Broomhill Bank (1.86 miles)	32

Where are the most violent places near Ferndale?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ferndale	186
High Brooms	173
Sherwood Park	100
St John’s	99
Royal Tunbridge Wells	88
Southborough	72
Sandown Park	55
Camden Park	44
Modest Corner	26
Broomhill Bank	9

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

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 Ferndale 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 Ferndale compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ferndale and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ferndale is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Broadwater	64
2	Sherwood	55
3	Rusthall	50
4	Southborough North	45
5	Southborough and High Brooms	45
6	St James'	37
7	St John's	32
8	Culverden	30
9	Park	26
10	Frant & Wadhurst	15
11	Pantiles and St Mark's	13

Which road in Ferndale has the highest level of crime?

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