Crime Statistics for Sandown Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sandown Park in August 2024. There were a total of 260 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sandown Park, 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 Crime88
Shoplifting44
Anti Social Behaviour39
Other Theft24
Criminal Damage Arson18
Public Order18
Vehicle Crime11
Drugs6
Robbery3
Possession Of Weapons3
Burglary2
Other Crime2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime260

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 Sandown Park. 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 Sandown Park

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ferndale (0.62 miles)364
High Brooms (0.88 miles)317
Royal Tunbridge Wells (1.39 miles)300
St John’s (1.39 miles)284
Sherwood Park195
Sandown Park177
Southborough (1.75 miles)142
Camden Park (1.39 miles)112
Henwood Green (1.86 miles)25
Pembury (1.24 miles)24

23.12%
of St James' (Tunbridge Wells) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sandown Park?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ferndale130
High Brooms102
Royal Tunbridge Wells98
St John’s88
Sandown Park88
Sherwood Park72
Camden Park51
Southborough42
Pembury7
Henwood Green6

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

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 Sandown Park 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 Sandown Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Broadwater64
2Sherwood55
3Rusthall50
4Southborough North45
5Southborough and High Brooms45
6St James'37
7St John's32
8Culverden30
9Park26
10Frant & Wadhurst15
11Pantiles and St Mark's13

Which road in Sandown Park has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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