Crime Statistics for New Barn, Dartford, Kent, 2024

Crime statistics for New Barn, Dartford

There were a total of 28 street level crime incidents in New Barn in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in New Barn, 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 Crime8
Burglary5
Anti Social Behaviour4
Criminal Damage Arson3
Vehicle Crime2
Public Order2
Drugs2
Possession Of Weapons1
Other Crime1
All Crime28

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 New Barn. 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 New Barn

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Longfield (1.39 miles)32
Camer (1.96 miles)32
New Barn28
Hartley (1.39 miles)28
Hartley Green (1.39 miles)28
Longfield Hill28
New Ash Green (2.24 miles)27
Round Street (1.86 miles)18
Istead Rise (1.39 miles)14
Southfleet (1.96 miles)3

6.47%
of Hartley and Hodsoll Street residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near New Barn?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Camer15
Longfield10
New Ash Green9
New Barn8
Longfield Hill8
Round Street7
Hartley6
Hartley Green6
Istead Rise3
Southfleet1

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

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 New Barn 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 New Barn compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Coldharbour86
2Ebbsfleet84
3Ash and New Ash Green72
4Shorne, Cobham and Luddesdown64
5Istead Rise59
6Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet55
7Painters Ash52
8Fawkham and West Kingsdown51
9Meopham North49
10Meopham South and Vigo49
11Hartley and Hodsoll Street49

Which road in New Barn has the highest level of crime?

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

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