Crime Statistics for Basted, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 3 street level crime incidents in Basted in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Drugs, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Drugs	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	3

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 Basted. 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 Basted

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Borough Green (1.24 miles)	30
Platt (1.75 miles)	29
Ightham (0.88 miles)	10
Igtham Common (1.24 miles)	5
Basted	3
Plaxtol (1.24 miles)	3
Yopps Green (0.62 miles)	2
Crouch (0.62 miles)	1
Roughway (2.24 miles)	0
Dunk’s Green (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Basted?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Borough Green	8
Platt	5
Ightham	3
Crouch	1
Igtham Common	0
Basted	0
Plaxtol	0
Yopps Green	0
Roughway	0
Dunk’s Green	0

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

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 Basted 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 Basted compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Downs and Mereworth	65
2	Sevenoaks Eastern	59
3	Trench	58
4	West Malling and Leybourne	54
5	Seal and Weald	53
6	Cage Green	51
7	Higham	38
8	Wrotham, Ightham and Stansted	37
9	Sevenoaks Town and St John's	35
10	Hadlow and East Peckham	33
11	Borough Green and Long Mill	29

Which road in Basted has the highest level of crime?

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