Crime Statistics for Rusthall, Wealden, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 47 street level crime incidents in Rusthall in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rusthall, 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	19
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Public Order	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Shoplifting	3
Burglary	2
Other Crime	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	47

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 Rusthall. 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 Rusthall

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Royal Tunbridge Wells (1.24 miles)	207
St John’s (1.75 miles)	205
Rusthall	47
Broomhill Bank (0.62 miles)	32
Broadwater Down (1.39 miles)	27
Ramslye (0.62 miles)	27
Speldhurst (1.39 miles)	16
Stockland Green (1.86 miles)	11
Strawberry Hill (1.24 miles)	10
Langton Green (1.24 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Rusthall?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Royal Tunbridge Wells	80
St John’s	79
Rusthall	19
Broadwater Down	15
Ramslye	14
Broomhill Bank	11
Speldhurst	5
Strawberry Hill	5
Stockland Green	4
Langton Green	1

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

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 Rusthall 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 Rusthall compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Broadwater	64
2	Rusthall	50
3	Southborough and High Brooms	45
4	Penshurst, Fordcombe and Chiddingstone	41
5	St James'	37
6	St John's	32
7	Culverden	30
8	Park	26
9	Withyham	18
10	Frant & Wadhurst	15
11	Pantiles and St Mark's	13

Which road in Rusthall has the highest level of crime?

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