Crime Statistics for Leadingcross Green, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

Crime statistics for Leadingcross Green, Maidstone

There were a total of 13 street level crime incidents in Leadingcross Green in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour4
Violent Crime3
Other Theft2
Criminal Damage Arson1
Shoplifting1
Burglary1
Public Order1
All Crime13

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 Leadingcross Green. 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 Leadingcross Green

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Pollhill (1.96 miles)17
Horsalls (2.24 miles)15
Harrietsham (1.39 miles)14
Leadingcross Green13
Charing Heath (2.24 miles)10
Egerton (2.56 miles)8
Fairbourne Heath (2.55 miles)4
Sandway (0.62 miles)2
Pembles Cross (2.56 miles)0
Warren Street (2.23 miles)0

5.8%
of Upper Weald residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Leadingcross Green?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Pollhill10
Horsalls9
Harrietsham9
Charing Heath6
Egerton5
Leadingcross Green3
Fairbourne Heath1
Sandway0
Pembles Cross0
Warren Street0

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

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 Leadingcross Green 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 Leadingcross Green compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Leadingcross Green and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Leadingcross Green is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1North Downs87
2Upper Weald70
3Park Wood67
4Charing65
5Headcorn56
6Leeds56
7Sutton Valence and Langley53
8Weald North49
9Harrietsham and Lenham43
10Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sutton41
11Bearsted12

Which road in Leadingcross Green has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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