Crime Statistics for Stone, Dartford, Kent, 2025

Is Stone rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 357 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	125
Violent Crime	93
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Other Theft	19
Vehicle Crime	12
Drugs	8
Public Order	8
Burglary	7
Theft From The Person	6
Other Crime	4
Robbery	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	357

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Temple Hill (1.39 miles)	368
Stone	357
Knockhall (1.24 miles)	286
Greenhithe (0.88 miles)	260
South Stifford (2.78 miles)	194
Bean (1.39 miles)	80
Lane End (1.96 miles)	58
Stonewood (1.75 miles)	20
Green Street Green (2.56 miles)	18
Betsham (2.63 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Stone?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Temple Hill	157
Stone	93
Knockhall	64
Greenhithe	53
South Stifford	48
Bean	24
Lane End	17
Green Street Green	6
Stonewood	5
Betsham	3

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

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 Stone 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 Stone compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Stone and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Stone is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Temple Hill	93
2	Town	85
3	Stone House	85
4	Greenhithe & Knockhall	83
5	Bean & Village Park	77
6	Newtown	77
7	Princes	76
8	Darenth	71
9	Stone Castle	70
10	Brent	68

Which road in Stone has the highest level of crime?

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