Crime Statistics for Little Preston, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Little Preston in August 2024. There were a total of 116 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 Little Preston, 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	38
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Shoplifting	16
Public Order	10
Other Theft	9
Vehicle Crime	7
Drugs	6
Other Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Robbery	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	116

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 Little Preston. 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 Little Preston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Allington (0.88 miles)	136
Little Preston	106
Sandling (1.24 miles)	106
Larkfield (1.86 miles)	91
Millhall (0.88 miles)	80
Abbey Gate (1.24 miles)	77
Royal British Legion Village (0.88 miles)	61
Aylesford (0.62 miles)	45
Holt Hill (1.39 miles)	35
Eccles (1.24 miles)	20

Where are the most violent places near Little Preston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Allington	63
Little Preston	38
Sandling	37
Millhall	31
Larkfield	30
Abbey Gate	25
Aylesford	24
Royal British Legion Village	23
Holt Hill	13
Eccles	9

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

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 Little Preston 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 Little Preston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	North	52
2	Bridge	52
3	Larkfield South	51
4	Heath	50
5	East	44
6	Aylesford South	40
7	Larkfield North	37
8	Ditton	32
9	Boxley	31
10	Barming and Teston	28
11	Allington	11

Which road in Little Preston has the highest level of crime?

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