Crime Statistics for Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Tonbridge in October 2024. There were a total of 195 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 Tonbridge, 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 Crime68
Shoplifting41
Criminal Damage Arson20
Anti Social Behaviour19
Public Order13
Other Theft12
Drugs5
Burglary4
Vehicle Crime4
Bicycle Theft4
Possession Of Weapons2
Other Crime2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime195

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 Tonbridge. 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 Tonbridge

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cage Green (0.62 miles)421
Tonbridge195
Hadlow Stair (0.88 miles)152
Higham Wood (1.39 miles)98
Pittswood (2.24 miles)58
Parker’s Green (1.75 miles)27
Barden Park (1.24 miles)26
Brook Street (1.39 miles)18
Lower Haysden (1.96 miles)10
Stocks Green (2.55 miles)2

16.08%
of Medway residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Tonbridge?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cage Green157
Tonbridge68
Hadlow Stair58
Higham Wood47
Pittswood44
Parker’s Green12
Barden Park11
Brook Street9
Lower Haysden2
Stocks Green1

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

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 Tonbridge 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 Tonbridge compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Medway61
2Trench58
3Cage Green51
4Castle51
5Judd46
6Southborough North45
7Capel39
8Higham38
9Vauxhall34
10Hildenborough12
11Speldhurst and Bidborough12

Which road in Tonbridge has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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