Crime Statistics for ******* Bank, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 3 street level crime incidents in Hanging Bank in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Burglary.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	3

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 Hanging Bank. 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 Hanging Bank

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hosey Hill (2.24 miles)	26
Goodley Stock (2.56 miles)	5
Four Elms (2.24 miles)	5
The Chart (1.39 miles)	5
Pootings (2.24 miles)	4
Hanging Bank	3
Ide Hill	3
Toys Hill (0.62 miles)	2
Bayley’s Hill (1.86 miles)	0
Bough Beech Reservoir (2.32 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Hanging Bank?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hosey Hill	8
Four Elms	2
Pootings	2
Goodley Stock	0
The Chart	0
Hanging Bank	0
Ide Hill	0
Toys Hill	0
Bayley’s Hill	0
Bough Beech Reservoir	0

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

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 Hanging Bank 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 Hanging Bank compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hanging Bank and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Hanging Bank is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Edenbridge South and West	70
2	Sevenoaks Northern	69
3	Oxted South	66
4	Westerham and Crockham Hill	64
5	Sevenoaks Eastern	59
6	Edenbridge North and East	48
7	Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge	47
8	Dunton Green and Riverhead	45
9	Sevenoaks Town and St John's	35
10	Leigh and Chiddingstone Causeway	28
11	Sevenoaks Kippington	27

Which road in Hanging Bank has the highest level of crime?

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