Crime Statistics for Four Elms, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Four Elms in August 2024. There were a total of 3 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 Four Elms, 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	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	3

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 Four Elms. 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 Four Elms

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Marlpit Hill (1.39 miles)	75
Edenbridge (1.75 miles)	75
Eden (1.43 miles)	19
Four Elms	3
Toys Hill (1.96 miles)	1
Hanging Bank (2.24 miles)	1
Ide Hill (2.24 miles)	1
Bough Beech (2.24 miles)	1
Pootings (0.88 miles)	0
Bough Beech Reservoir (2.07 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Four Elms?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Marlpit Hill	27
Edenbridge	27
Eden	3
Four Elms	1
Bough Beech	1
Toys Hill	0
Hanging Bank	0
Ide Hill	0
Pootings	0
Bough Beech Reservoir	0

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

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 Four Elms 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 Four Elms compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Four Elms and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Four Elms is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Lingfield and Crowhurst	80
2	Edenbridge South and West	70
3	Oxted South	66
4	Westerham and Crockham Hill	64
5	Limpsfield	59
6	Cowden and Hever	50
7	Edenbridge North and East	48
8	Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge	47
9	Penshurst, Fordcombe and Chiddingstone	41
10	Leigh and Chiddingstone Causeway	28
11	Sevenoaks Kippington	27

Which road in Four Elms has the highest level of crime?

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