Crime Statistics for Langley Heath, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Langley Heath in October 2024. There were a total of 30 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	8
Violent Crime	8
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Public Order	4
Other Crime	4
Other Theft	2
All Crime	30

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 Langley Heath. 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 Langley Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Park Wood (1.86 miles)	93
Langley Heath	16
Chegworth (1.96 miles)	11
Broomfield (1.39 miles)	9
Ashbank (1.39 miles)	9
Langley	8
Warmlake (1.24 miles)	8
Chart Corner (1.39 miles)	6
Chart Sutton (1.39 miles)	6
Chart Hill (1.75 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Langley Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Park Wood	36
Langley Heath	8
Broomfield	2
Langley	2
Warmlake	2
Chart Corner	2
Chart Sutton	2
Chegworth	1
Ashbank	1
Chart Hill	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Langley Heath?

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 Langley Heath 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 Langley Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Langley Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Langley Heath is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shepway South	73
2	Shepway North	73
3	Park Wood	67
4	Headcorn	56
5	Leeds	56
6	Sutton Valence and Langley	53
7	South	45
8	Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sutton	41
9	Downswood and Otham	39
10	Loose	30
11	Bearsted	12

Which road in Langley Heath has the highest level of crime?

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