Crime Statistics for Tonge Corner, Swale, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Tonge Corner in August 2024. There were a total of 51 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	23
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Other Theft	6
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	51

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 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.

Location	Crime Incidents
Milton Regis (2.55 miles)	453
Kemsley (1.96 miles)	145
Bapchild (1.96 miles)	53
Barrow Green (1.75 miles)	42
Tonge Corner	38
Radfield (1.96 miles)	34
Teynham Street (2.24 miles)	29
Conyer (1.96 miles)	26
Iwade (2.77 miles)	20
Teynham (2.24 miles)	20

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.

Location	Violent Incidents
Milton Regis	177
Kemsley	45
Barrow Green	44
Conyer	36
Radfield	26
Tonge Corner	23
Bapchild	22
Teynham Street	12
Iwade	11
Teynham	11

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.

#	Ward	Score
1	Chalkwell	87
2	Milton Regis	80
3	Roman	80
4	Murston	75
5	Homewood	66
6	Teynham and Lynsted	63
7	Kemsley	62
8	Borden and Grove Park	58
9	Woodstock	41
10	West Downs	39

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 this marker.