Crime Statistics for Tonge Corner, Swale, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Tonge Corner in September 2024. There were a total of 37 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 Tonge Corner, 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 Crime13
Anti Social Behaviour8
Other Crime5
Criminal Damage Arson4
Vehicle Crime3
Other Theft1
Bicycle Theft1
Drugs1
Shoplifting1
All Crime37

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 Tonge Corner. 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 Tonge Corner

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Milton Regis (2.55 miles)440
Kemsley (1.96 miles)135
Bapchild (1.96 miles)53
Barrow Green (1.75 miles)42
Tonge Corner37
Teynham (2.24 miles)29
Iwade (2.77 miles)22
Teynham Street (2.24 miles)22
Conyer (1.96 miles)19
Radfield (1.96 miles)11

8.9%
of Teynham and Lynsted residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Tonge Corner?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Milton Regis169
Kemsley60
Barrow Green44
Bapchild22
Iwade22
Teynham18
Tonge Corner13
Teynham Street11
Conyer11
Radfield4

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

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 Tonge Corner 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 Tonge Corner compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Tonge Corner and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Tonge Corner is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Chalkwell87
2Milton Regis80
3Roman80
4Murston75
5Homewood66
6Teynham and Lynsted63
7Kemsley62
8Borden and Grove Park58
9Woodstock41
10West Downs39

Which road in Tonge Corner has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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