Crime Statistics for Hextable, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

Crime statistics for Hextable, Sevenoaks

There were a total of 125 street level crime incidents in Hextable in January 2024. 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 Hextable, 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 Crime47
Criminal Damage Arson12
Vehicle Crime12
Anti Social Behaviour11
Shoplifting10
Other Theft8
Public Order7
Other Crime5
Burglary4
Drugs4
Possession Of Weapons3
Bicycle Theft1
Robbery1
All Crime125

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Hextable. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Hextable

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Crayford (2.48 miles)180
Kevingtown (2.63 miles)161
Hextable125
Bowmans (1.96 miles)106
Coldblow (1.96 miles)74
Old Bexley (2.24 miles)71
Ruxley (1.57 miles)60
Heath Side (1.24 miles)45
Hockenden (1.75 miles)35
Crockenhill (1.96 miles)29

6.86%
of Hextable residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hextable?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Kevingtown54
Hextable47
Crayford40
Bowmans39
Coldblow18
Heath Side14
Hockenden14
Old Bexley12
Ruxley10
Crockenhill9

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

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 Hextable 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 Hextable compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Swanley St Mary's92
2Swanley White Oak81
3Maypole & Leyton Cross70
4Farningham, Horton Kirby and South Darenth67
5Wilmington, Sutton-at-Hone & Hawley65
6Hextable59
7Heath54
8Crayford54
9Swanley Christchurch and Swanley Village50
10St Mary's & St James50
11Joyden's Wood43

Which road in Hextable has the highest level of crime?

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

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