Crime Statistics for Longfield Hill, Dartford, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Longfield Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 33 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 Longfield Hill, 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	14
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Shoplifting	3
Drugs	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	33

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 Longfield Hill. 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 Longfield Hill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hartley Green (1.39 miles)	57
Longfield (1.39 miles)	50
New Barn	33
Longfield Hill	33
Hartley (1.39 miles)	30
New Ash Green (2.24 miles)	21
Camer (1.96 miles)	15
Round Street (1.86 miles)	14
Istead Rise (1.39 miles)	13
Southfleet (1.96 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Longfield Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
New Barn	14
Longfield Hill	14
Longfield	13
Hartley Green	11
New Ash Green	8
Hartley	7
Istead Rise	7
Camer	4
Round Street	4
Southfleet	2

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

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 Longfield Hill 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 Longfield Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Longfield Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Longfield Hill have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Coldharbour.

#	Ward	Score
1	Coldharbour	86
2	Ebbsfleet	84
3	Ash and New Ash Green	72
4	Shorne, Cobham and Luddesdown	64
5	Istead Rise	59
6	Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet	55
7	Painters Ash	52
8	Fawkham and West Kingsdown	51
9	Meopham North	49
10	Meopham South and Vigo	49
11	Hartley and Hodsoll Street	49

Which road in Longfield Hill has the highest level of crime?

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