Crime Statistics for Igtham Common, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Igtham Common in September 2024. There were a total of 6 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	3
Violent Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	6

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 Igtham Common. 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 Igtham Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Borough Green (1.75 miles)	31
Childsbridge (2.24 miles)	21
Lower Bitchet (1.39 miles)	11
Ightham (0.88 miles)	9
Igtham Common	6
Basted (1.24 miles)	4
Crouch (1.86 miles)	3
Yopps Green (1.39 miles)	3
Plaxtol (1.75 miles)	2
Heaverham (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Igtham Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Childsbridge	15
Borough Green	7
Lower Bitchet	7
Ightham	4
Igtham Common	2
Basted	2
Crouch	1
Yopps Green	1
Plaxtol	0
Heaverham	0

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

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 Igtham Common 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 Igtham Common compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sevenoaks Northern	69
2	Sevenoaks Eastern	59
3	Trench	58
4	Seal and Weald	53
5	Dunton Green and Riverhead	45
6	Otford and Shoreham	44
7	Wrotham, Ightham and Stansted	37
8	Kemsing	36
9	Sevenoaks Town and St John's	35
10	Borough Green and Long Mill	29
11	Sevenoaks Kippington	27

Which road in Igtham Common has the highest level of crime?

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