Crime Statistics for Lane End, Dartford, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lane End in September 2024. There were a total of 63 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 Lane End, 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	16
Shoplifting	14
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Crime	3
Burglary	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	63

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 Lane End. 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 Lane End

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stone (1.96 miles)	583
Knockhall (2.63 miles)	444
Temple Hill (2.56 miles)	350
Bean (1.39 miles)	73
Lane End	51
South Darenth (1.24 miles)	35
Horton Kirby (1.86 miles)	19
Stonewood (1.96 miles)	14
Green Street Green (1.39 miles)	8
Betsham (2.48 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Lane End?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stone	197
Knockhall	147
Temple Hill	135
Bean	27
Lane End	16
South Darenth	8
Stonewood	7
Horton Kirby	6
Betsham	5
Green Street Green	4

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

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 Lane End 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 Lane End compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Temple Hill	93
2	Town	85
3	Stone House	85
4	Bean & Village Park	77
5	Newtown	77
6	Princes	76
7	Darenth	71
8	Maypole & Leyton Cross	70
9	Brent	68
10	Wilmington, Sutton-at-Hone & Hawley	65
11	Swanley Christchurch and Swanley Village	50

Which road in Lane End has the highest level of crime?

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