Crime Statistics for Twitton, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 7 street level crime incidents in Twitton in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Twitton, 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	4
Vehicle Crime	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	7

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 Twitton. 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 Twitton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Greatness (2.24 miles)	115
Dunton Green (1.24 miles)	32
Longford (1.24 miles)	32
Chipstead (2.24 miles)	13
Twitton	7
Chevening (2.24 miles)	4
Timberden Bottom (1.86 miles)	3
Halstead (2.24 miles)	2
Shoreham (1.24 miles)	2
Knockholt (1.86 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Twitton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Greatness	34
Dunton Green	10
Longford	10
Chipstead	7
Twitton	4
Timberden Bottom	2
Shoreham	2
Chevening	1
Halstead	0
Knockholt	0

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

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 Twitton 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 Twitton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Twitton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Twitton is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Crockenhill and Well Hill	92
2	Sevenoaks Northern	69
3	Sevenoaks Eastern	59
4	Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge	47
5	Dunton Green and Riverhead	45
6	Eynsford	45
7	Otford and Shoreham	44
8	Halstead, Knockholt and Badgers Mount	37
9	Kemsing	36
10	Sevenoaks Town and St John's	35
11	Sevenoaks Kippington	27

Which road in Twitton has the highest level of crime?

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