Crime Statistics for Temple Hill, Dartford, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Temple Hill in October 2024. There were a total of 448 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 Temple Hill, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	167
Anti Social Behaviour	70
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Shoplifting	34
Other Theft	29
Public Order	28
Vehicle Crime	20
Drugs	17
Burglary	16
Other Crime	6
Theft From The Person	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	448

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Colyers (2.61 miles)	455
Temple Hill	448
Stone (1.39 miles)	402
Greenhithe (1.86 miles)	295
Knockhall (2.55 miles)	239
Barnes Cray (1.86 miles)	164
Bowmans (2.24 miles)	163
Crayford (2.55 miles)	131
Bean (2.63 miles)	67
Lane End (2.56 miles)	41

Where are the most violent places near Temple Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Temple Hill	167
Colyers	166
Stone	138
Bowmans	131
Knockhall	116
Greenhithe	69
Barnes Cray	50
Crayford	38
Bean	19
Lane End	11

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

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 Temple Hill 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 Temple Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Temple Hill	93
2	Town	85
3	Stone House	85
4	Bean & Village Park	77
5	Newtown	77
6	Princes	76
7	Stone Castle	70
8	West Hill	69
9	Brent	68

Which road in Temple Hill has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Temple Hill with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Littlebrook Manor Way.