Crime Statistics for Larkfield, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Larkfield in August 2024. There were a total of 130 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Larkfield, 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 Crime30
Anti Social Behaviour23
Criminal Damage Arson20
Vehicle Crime15
Other Theft12
Other Crime8
Shoplifting8
Burglary7
Public Order3
Bicycle Theft2
Theft From The Person1
Drugs1
All Crime130

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 Larkfield. 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 Larkfield

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ham Hill (1.24 miles)200
New Hythe (0.62 miles)115
Little Preston (1.86 miles)106
Larkfield91
Millhall (1.39 miles)80
Royal British Legion Village (1.39 miles)61
Mill Street (0.88 miles)49
Aylesford (1.24 miles)45
Holt Hill (0.88 miles)35
Birling (1.75 miles)15

6.7%
of Larkfield South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Larkfield?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ham Hill144
Little Preston38
New Hythe33
Millhall31
Larkfield30
Aylesford24
Royal British Legion Village23
Mill Street15
Holt Hill13
Birling4

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

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 Larkfield 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 Larkfield compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Larkfield and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Larkfield is ranked #4.

#WardScore
1East Malling77
2Snodland East and Ham Hill66
3West Malling and Leybourne54
4Larkfield South51
5Aylesford South40
6Larkfield North37
7Ditton32
8Barming and Teston28
9Wateringbury28
10Kings Hill15
11Allington11

Which road in Larkfield has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Larkfield 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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