Crime Statistics for Pluckley, Ashford, Kent, 2024

Crime statistics for Pluckley, Ashford

There were a total of 1 street level crime incidents in in February 2024. The largest category was Vehicle Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime1

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Pluckley. 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 Pluckley

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Charing Heath (2.48 miles)4
Ram Lane (2.55 miles)4
Potter’s Forstal (2.55 miles)2
Coppins Corner (2.24 miles)2
Pluckley1
Fir Toll (0.62 miles)1
Chamber’s Green (1.24 miles)0
Pluckley Thorne (0.88 miles)0
Egerton (1.75 miles)0
Stonebridge Green (1.39 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 Pluckley?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Charing Heath2
Potter’s Forstal2
Ram Lane0
Coppins Corner0
Pluckley0
Fir Toll0
Chamber’s Green0
Pluckley Thorne0
Egerton0
Stonebridge Green0

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

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 Pluckley 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 Pluckley compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pluckley and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Pluckley is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Beaver88
2North Downs87
3Upper Weald70
4Singleton East60
5Singleton West57
6Washford53
7Weald Central52
8Repton50
9Weald North49
10Godinton38
11Weald South34

Which road in Pluckley has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: February 2024
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