The Duke's Head Public House · Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0Violent crime per resident is lower in Dunton Green than in 66% of UK towns
With 11 cases in the 12 months to August 2026, vehicle crime reaches 3.4 per 1,000 residents in Dunton Green, well above the typical 2. Overall, Dunton Green grades B for safety (#15 of 87 in Kent): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Even so, recorded violence rose 14% in a year. Out of every 1,000 residents, 18.2 violent and sexual offences and 11.8 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are reported annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Dunton Green
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 14% more violent crime per resident in Dunton Green than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Dunton Green has the 460th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Kingsbury, Wymott and Hixon, higher than Edenfield, Tywardreath and Kingsclere. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Dunton Green: B for safety, and why
A fairly firm grade. Built on 285 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Dunton Green against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How Dunton Green’s neighbourhoods rank in England
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Dunton Green’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
How crime in Dunton Green has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling twelve-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +14% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -19% (towns its size -1%).
Police in Dunton Green identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 58% of Dunton Green’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 16% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (65% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 4% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 113 crimes.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Dunton Green runs highest on vehicle crime (3.4 per 1,000 against 2). Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 55 | 17 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 29 | 8.9 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 15 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 11 | 3.4 | 2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 8 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 7 | 2.2 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 4 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Public order | not graded | 3 | 0.9 | 3.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 3 | 0.9 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.3 | 0 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Dunton Green per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 9 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 3 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Among 856 towns its size, Dunton Green ranks 460th for the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 30 | Ightham Kent | 2,037 | 6.1 | 7 | 2.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 95 | Cuxton Kent | 3,039 | 9.7 | 7.4 | 2.9 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 98 | Cliffe Woods Kent | 2,689 | 11.2 | 6 | 3 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 100 | Istead Rise Kent | 3,398 | 9.7 | 7.6 | 5.9 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 457 | Edenfield Lancashire | 2,048 | 18.7 | 11.2 | 2.9 | B |
| 458 | Tywardreath Cornwall | 2,589 | 18.8 | 11.2 | 8.8 | B |
| 459 | Kingsclere Hampshire | 2,889 | 20.7 | 9.4 | 3.2 | B |
| 460 | Dunton Green Kent | 3,241 | 18.2 | 11.8 | 2.7 | B |
| 461 | Lanchester County Durham | 3,510 | 19.6 | 10.5 | 5.5 | B |
| 462 | Wolsingham County Durham | 2,428 | 19.6 | 10.4 | 3.2 | B |
| 463 | Fulbourn Cambridgeshire | 3,737 | 19.1 | 11 | 3.2 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 856 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Dunton Green, and others in Kent.
No one died in a collision on Dunton Green’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 11 collisions with injuries inside Dunton Green in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Dunton Green is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Dunton Green’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 3 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Dunton Green had 1.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Dunton Green’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Dunton Green
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunton Green | 3,241 | 18.2 | 11.8 | B |
| Sevenoaks | 26,474 | 19.1 | 14.8 | B− |
| Otford and Kemsing | 7,332 | 12.6 | 11.9 | B+ |
| Sundridge | 1,190 | 23.8 | 17.1 | C |
| Seal | 1,616 | 15.1 | 9.3 | B+ |
| Westerham | 3,390 | 28.9 | 20.1 | C− |
| Ightham | 2,037 | 6.1 | 7 | A+ |
| West Kingsdown | 4,306 | 17.7 | 10.9 | B |
Dunton Green records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Otford and Kemsing, 1.8 miles away, records 12.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Dunton Green’s 18.2.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Dunton Green sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Dunton Green
Is Dunton Green safe?
Police recorded 18.2 violent and sexual offences and 11.8 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Dunton Green’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 56% of UK towns. Among 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Dunton Green is 460th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Dunton Green?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 14%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 19%, shoplifting and theft rose 29% and anti-social behaviour rose 53%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Dunton Green?
Violence & sexual offences: 55 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (15) and vehicle crime (11), with 29 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Dunton Green compare with Sevenoaks?
Sevenoaks records 19.1 violent and sexual offences and 14.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Dunton Green’s 18.2 and 11.8, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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