Crime Statistics for Ham Hill, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ham Hill in August 2024. There were a total of 399 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ham Hill, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime144
Vehicle Crime48
Anti Social Behaviour48
Other Theft32
Shoplifting32
Other Crime23
Criminal Damage Arson20
Public Order20
Burglary20
Theft From The Person4
Drugs4
Bicycle Theft4
All Crime399

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 Ham Hill. 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 Ham Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ham Hill200
Burham Court (1.39 miles)144
New Hythe (0.62 miles)115
Holborough (1.24 miles)114
Larkfield (1.24 miles)91
Millhall (1.39 miles)80
Aylesford (1.75 miles)45
Burham (1.75 miles)21
Eccles (1.86 miles)20
Birling (1.24 miles)15

7.18%
of Larkfield North residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ham Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ham Hill144
Holborough44
Burham Court40
New Hythe33
Millhall31
Larkfield30
Aylesford24
Eccles9
Burham6
Birling4

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

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 Ham Hill 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 Ham Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1East Malling77
2Snodland East and Ham Hill66
3West Malling and Leybourne54
4Larkfield South51
5Snodland West and Holborough Lakes41
6Aylesford South40
7Larkfield North37
8Ditton32
9Wateringbury28
10Kings Hill15
11Allington11

Which road in Ham Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

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