Crime Statistics for Lane End, Dartford, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lane End in August 2024. There were a total of 71 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 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime21
Vehicle Crime13
Anti Social Behaviour12
Burglary9
Shoplifting5
Other Theft5
Criminal Damage Arson3
Drugs1
Other Crime1
Public Order1
All Crime71

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Knockhall (2.63 miles)541
Stone (1.96 miles)484
Temple Hill (2.56 miles)465
Bean (1.39 miles)73
Lane End71
South Darenth (1.24 miles)36
Green Street Green (1.39 miles)29
Horton Kirby (1.86 miles)23
Stonewood (1.96 miles)23
Betsham (2.48 miles)8

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Temple Hill178
Stone172
Knockhall150
Bean27
Lane End21
South Darenth16
Horton Kirby14
Stonewood8
Green Street Green5
Betsham5

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.

#WardScore
1Temple Hill93
2Town85
3Stone House85
4Bean & Village Park77
5Newtown77
6Princes76
7Darenth71
8Maypole & Leyton Cross70
9Brent68
10Wilmington, Sutton-at-Hone & Hawley65
11Swanley Christchurch and Swanley Village50

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 this marker.

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