Crime Statistics for South Street, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for South Street in August 2024. There were a total of 14 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Other Theft	2
Public Order	2
Shoplifting	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Drugs	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	14

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 South Street. 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 South Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Culverstone Green (0.62 miles)	17
Harvel (0.62 miles)	16
South Street	14
Hodsoll Street (0.62 miles)	9
Ash-cum-Ridley (1.96 miles)	8
New Street (0.88 miles)	7
Foxendown (1.75 miles)	6
Great Buckland (1.86 miles)	2
Coomb Hill (1.96 miles)	1
Fairseat (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near South Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harvel	4
Culverstone Green	3
South Street	1
Hodsoll Street	1
New Street	1
Foxendown	1
Great Buckland	1
Coomb Hill	1
Fairseat	1
Ash-cum-Ridley	0

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

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 South Street 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 South Street compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ash and New Ash Green	72
2	Snodland East and Ham Hill	66
3	Shorne, Cobham and Luddesdown	64
4	Istead Rise	59
5	Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet	55
6	West Malling and Leybourne	54
7	Fawkham and West Kingsdown	51
8	Meopham North	49
9	Meopham South and Vigo	49
10	Hartley and Hodsoll Street	49
11	Snodland West and Holborough Lakes	41

Which road in South Street has the highest level of crime?

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