Crime Statistics for Bidborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 11 street level crime incidents in Bidborough in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	4
Violent Crime	3
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Other Crime	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	11

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St John’s (1.75 miles)	205
Southborough (1.39 miles)	90
Barden Park (1.96 miles)	37
Modest Corner (0.88 miles)	36
Broomhill Bank (1.86 miles)	32
Brook Street (1.39 miles)	19
Speldhurst (1.39 miles)	16
Bidborough	11
Stockland Green (0.62 miles)	11
Lower Haysden (1.24 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Bidborough?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St John’s	79
Southborough	41
Barden Park	18
Modest Corner	15
Broomhill Bank	11
Brook Street	10
Speldhurst	5
Stockland Green	4
Bidborough	3
Lower Haysden	1

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

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 Bidborough 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 Bidborough compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sherwood	55
2	Rusthall	50
3	Judd	46
4	Southborough North	45
5	Southborough and High Brooms	45
6	Penshurst, Fordcombe and Chiddingstone	41
7	St James'	37
8	Vauxhall	34
9	St John's	32
10	Culverden	30
11	Speldhurst and Bidborough	12

Which road in Bidborough has the highest level of crime?

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