Crime Statistics for Hartley Green, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hartley Green in September 2024. There were a total of 33 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 Hartley Green, 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	7
Shoplifting	6
Other Theft	5
Other Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	1
All Crime	33

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 Hartley Green. 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 Hartley Green

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Longfield (1.24 miles)	31
Hartley	29
New Ash Green (1.24 miles)	25
Hartley Green	22
New Barn (1.39 miles)	19
Longfield Hill (1.39 miles)	19
Speed Gate (2.23 miles)	11
Fawkham Green (1.75 miles)	10
New Street (2.24 miles)	8
Ash-cum-Ridley (1.86 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Hartley Green?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hartley	14
Longfield	13
New Ash Green	10
New Barn	8
Longfield Hill	8
Hartley Green	7
New Street	5
Speed Gate	1
Fawkham Green	1
Ash-cum-Ridley	0

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

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 Hartley Green 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 Hartley Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hartley Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hartley Green is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ebbsfleet	84
2	Ash and New Ash Green	72
3	Darenth	71
4	Shorne, Cobham and Luddesdown	64
5	Istead Rise	59
6	Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet	55
7	Painters Ash	52
8	Fawkham and West Kingsdown	51
9	Meopham North	49
10	Meopham South and Vigo	49
11	Hartley and Hodsoll Street	49

Which road in Hartley Green has the highest level of crime?

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