Crime Statistics for Lower Haysden, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Haysden in September 2024. There were a total of 22 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 Lower Haysden, 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 Crime16
Anti Social Behaviour6
All Crime22

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lower Haysden. 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 Lower Haysden

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cage Green (2.24 miles)286
Tonbridge (1.96 miles)160
Southborough (2.24 miles)97
Modest Corner (1.96 miles)48
Barden Park (0.88 miles)30
Brook Street (0.62 miles)23
Bidborough (1.24 miles)14
Stockland Green (1.86 miles)13
Lower Haysden12
Stocks Green (1.39 miles)9

10.23%
of Speldhurst and Bidborough residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Haysden?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cage Green105
Tonbridge50
Southborough47
Modest Corner26
Lower Haysden16
Brook Street11
Bidborough8
Stockland Green8
Barden Park7
Stocks Green2

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

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 Lower Haysden 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 Lower Haysden compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Medway61
2Cage Green51
3Castle51
4Judd46
5Southborough North45
6Penshurst, Fordcombe and Chiddingstone41
7Capel39
8Vauxhall34
9Leigh and Chiddingstone Causeway28
10Hildenborough12
11Speldhurst and Bidborough12

Which road in Lower Haysden has the highest level of crime?

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

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