TN38 crime rate and statistics

The TN38 postcode district, in the TN (Tonbridge) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,906 street-crime records for TN38 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.4% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 100.5 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 99.4 for Sussex Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

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

Street-crime records

2,906

Latest month (August 2026)

285

Year-on-year

+8.4%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 208
October 2025 207
November 2025 209
December 2025 185
January 2026 208
February 2026 170
March 2026 217
April 2026 279
May 2026 263
June 2026 304
July 2026 371
August 2026 285

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.

TN38

100.5

Sussex Police

99.4

2,906 records and 28,929 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 TN38 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 TN38

Published street-crime records in TN38, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of TN38: the south-east 1,316, the east 716, the south 690, the north-east 629, the north 222, the south-west 62, the west 60, the north-west 29, the centre 11.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of TN38's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and TN38'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 TN38 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore TN38 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for TN38 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 3,207
2022 2,940
2023 2,809
2024 2,684
2025 2,687
2026 (part year) 2,097

Is TN38 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for TN38 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in TN38 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

TN38's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Sussex Police (99.8%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.1%) and Nottinghamshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in TN38

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
TN38 0 1,263
TN38 8 464
TN38 9 1,179

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 28,929 Census 2021 residents of TN38.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 61.3% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About TN38 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £290,000 (196)
2025 £276,000 (444)
2024 £284,998 (428)
2023 £285,000 (412)
2022 £287,750 (504)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £437,500 (44) £312,000 (51) £250,000 (40) £190,000 (61)
2025 £447,498 (100) £300,000 (95) £260,000 (101) £200,500 (148)
2024 £413,000 (88) £315,000 (92) £267,500 (79) £195,000 (169)
2023 £460,000 (85) £323,750 (90) £270,000 (68) £200,000 (169)
2022 £497,500 (98) £315,500 (92) £279,000 (98) £197,500 (216)

Schools and colleges

8 open establishments with a postcode in TN38, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 8 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Churchwood Primary School Primary Academy converter
Hollington Primary School Primary Academy converter
Mulberry West St Leonards Primary Primary Academy sponsor led
Robsack Wood Primary School Primary Academy converter
St Leonards Church of England Primary Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Mulberry Academy St Leonards Secondary Academy sponsor led
New Horizons School (Part of the Sabden Multi Academy Trust) – Academy special converter
Saxon Mount School – Academy special converter

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High34
Medium5
Low8
Very low12

Broadband

Share of the 637 postcodes in TN38 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit46.9%67.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)96.5%99.7%

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CrimeMapsUK. TN38 postcode district: 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/districts/tn38/

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