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Tunbridge Wells crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 8,075 street-crime records for the Tunbridge Wells council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 5.4% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 70.0 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 95.4 for Kent Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

These figures cover the whole area Tunbridge Wells council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Tunbridge Wells: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

8,075

Latest month (August 2026)

707

Year-on-year

+5.4%

Month-by-month totals

589

Sep

657

Oct

670

Nov

707

Dec

656

Jan

678

Feb

631

Mar

681

Apr

666

May

676

Jun

757

Jul

707

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	589
October 2025	657
November 2025	670
December 2025	707
January 2026	656
February 2026	678
March 2026	631
April 2026	681
May 2026	666
June 2026	676
July 2026	757
August 2026	707

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

Tunbridge Wells council area

70.0

Kent Police

95.4

Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.

8,075 records and 115,369 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of the Tunbridge Wells council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in the Tunbridge Wells council area

Records by part of the Tunbridge Wells council area: the north-west 3,119, the west 3,094, the north 1,007, the east 789, the south-east 382, the north-east 104, the centre 35, the south-west 26.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Tunbridge Wells council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Tunbridge Wells council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Tunbridge Wells council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Tunbridge Wells council area on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for the Tunbridge Wells council area (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	8,798
2022	8,632
2023	9,021
2024	8,351
2025	7,777
2026 (part year)	5,452

Police forces

The Tunbridge Wells council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Kent Police (99.3%), Sussex Police (0.4%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Norfolk Constabulary (0.0%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.0%) and Wiltshire Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000116), which can differ from the place people call Tunbridge Wells.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Tunbridge Wells. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Full detail is on the methodology page.

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CrimeMapsUK. Tunbridge Wells council area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/council-areas/tunbridge-wells/