Crime Statistics for Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Halstead in September 2024. There were a total of 66 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Drugs, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Drugs20
Violent Crime16
Vehicle Crime8
Criminal Damage Arson6
Other Crime4
Anti Social Behaviour4
Shoplifting4
Bicycle Theft4
All Crime66

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chelsfield (2.24 miles)85
Green Street Green (2.24 miles)75
Halstead34
Maypole (1.39 miles)18
Badgers Mount (0.88 miles)15
Knockholt (1.24 miles)12
Rushmore Hill (0.62 miles)11
Twitton (2.24 miles)7
Timberden Bottom (1.96 miles)7
Shoreham (1.86 miles)3

7.21%
of Halstead, Knockholt and Badgers Mount residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Halstead?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Halstead16
Chelsfield13
Green Street Green11
Maypole7
Badgers Mount6
Knockholt6
Rushmore Hill2
Twitton1
Timberden Bottom1
Shoreham0

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

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 Halstead 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 Halstead compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Crockenhill and Well Hill92
2Sevenoaks Northern69
3Orpington55
4Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge47
5Dunton Green and Riverhead45
6Eynsford45
7Otford and Shoreham44
8Darwin41
9Halstead, Knockholt and Badgers Mount37
10Farnborough and Crofton21
11Chelsfield and Pratts Bottom18

Which road in Halstead has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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