Crime Statistics for Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southborough in August 2024. There were a total of 142 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 Southborough, 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 Crime42
Anti Social Behaviour25
Shoplifting24
Criminal Damage Arson14
Vehicle Crime12
Other Theft10
Public Order9
Burglary2
Other Crime2
Drugs1
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime142

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 Southborough. 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 Southborough

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ferndale (1.39 miles)364
High Brooms (0.88 miles)317
St John’s (0.62 miles)284
Sherwood Park (1.75 miles)195
Sandown Park (1.75 miles)177
Southborough142
Modest Corner (0.62 miles)86
Broomhill Bank (1.75 miles)79
Bidborough (1.39 miles)14
Stockland Green (1.24 miles)8

12%
of Southborough and High Brooms residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Southborough?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ferndale130
High Brooms102
St John’s88
Sandown Park88
Sherwood Park72
Southborough42
Broomhill Bank31
Modest Corner29
Bidborough8
Stockland Green1

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

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 Southborough 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 Southborough compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Broadwater64
2Sherwood55
3Rusthall50
4Southborough North45
5Southborough and High Brooms45
6St James'37
7Vauxhall34
8St John's32
9Culverden30
10Park26
11Pantiles and St Mark's13

Which road in Southborough has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Southborough 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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