Crime Statistics for Herne Pound, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Herne Pound in October 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 Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	3

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 Herne Pound. 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 Herne Pound

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Leonard’s Street (1.75 miles)	37
Red Hill (2.48 miles)	17
Wateringbury (2.55 miles)	14
Nettlestead (2.24 miles)	13
Kent Street (0.62 miles)	9
Pizien Well (1.39 miles)	4
Roughway (2.24 miles)	3
Hamptons (2.24 miles)	3
Gover Hill (1.75 miles)	3
Herne Pound	3

Where are the most violent places near Herne Pound?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Red Hill	11
St Leonard’s Street	10
Wateringbury	8
Nettlestead	8
Kent Street	2
Pizien Well	2
Gover Hill	1
Herne Pound	1
Roughway	0
Hamptons	0

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

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 Herne Pound 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 Herne Pound compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	East Malling	77
2	Downs and Mereworth	65
3	West Malling and Leybourne	54
4	Larkfield South	51
5	Marden and Yalding	48
6	Higham	38
7	Hadlow and East Peckham	33
8	Ditton	32
9	Borough Green and Long Mill	29
10	Wateringbury	28
11	Kings Hill	15

Which road in Herne Pound has the highest level of crime?

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