Crime Statistics for Little Preston, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, 2024

Crime statistics for Little Preston, Tonbridge and Malling

There were a total of 83 street level crime incidents in Little Preston in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Shoplifting25
Violent Crime24
Vehicle Crime10
Anti Social Behaviour6
Burglary5
Other Crime4
Criminal Damage Arson4
Other Theft3
Theft From The Person1
Public Order1
All Crime83

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 Little Preston. 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 Little Preston

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Allington (0.88 miles)166
Abbey Gate (1.24 miles)102
Sandling (1.24 miles)102
Larkfield (1.86 miles)100
Little Preston83
Millhall (0.88 miles)82
Aylesford (0.62 miles)68
Royal British Legion Village (0.88 miles)40
Holt Hill (1.39 miles)39
Eccles (1.24 miles)19

7.66%
of Aylesford South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Little Preston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Allington79
Larkfield46
Abbey Gate40
Sandling40
Millhall29
Aylesford25
Little Preston24
Holt Hill16
Royal British Legion Village10
Eccles5

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

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 Little Preston 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 Little Preston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1North52
2Bridge52
3Larkfield South51
4Heath50
5East44
6Aylesford South40
7Larkfield North37
8Ditton32
9Boxley31
10Barming and Teston28
11Allington11

Which road in Little Preston has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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