Crime Statistics for Sandway, Ashford, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sandway in September 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Violent Crime	3
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Drugs	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	9

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 Sandway. 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 Sandway

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pollhill (1.39 miles)	24
Leadingcross Green (0.62 miles)	18
Horsalls (1.96 miles)	11
Harrietsham (0.88 miles)	10
Sandway	9
Chegworth (2.55 miles)	7
Ulcombe (2.77 miles)	4
Fairbourne Heath (1.96 miles)	4
Pembles Cross (2.48 miles)	1
Warren Street (2.77 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Sandway?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Leadingcross Green	6
Chegworth	4
Pollhill	3
Sandway	3
Harrietsham	2
Horsalls	1
Ulcombe	1
Fairbourne Heath	0
Pembles Cross	0
Warren Street	0

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

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 Sandway 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 Sandway compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sandway and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Sandway is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	North Downs	87
2	Upper Weald	70
3	Park Wood	67
4	Charing	65
5	Headcorn	56
6	Leeds	56
7	Sutton Valence and Langley	53
8	Harrietsham and Lenham	43
9	Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sutton	41
10	Downswood and Otham	39
11	Bearsted	12

Which road in Sandway has the highest level of crime?

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