Photo: Charlesdrakew · Public domainEdenbridge stands out for shoplifting: 5 times the rate of a typical town its size
Of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, 14% record more crime per resident. Edenbridge’s police logs show 37.0 violent and sexual offences and 16.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year. Overall, Edenbridge grades C− for safety (#59 of 87 in Kent): more crime per resident than 83% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Recorded violence fell 10% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Edenbridge
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 10% less violent crime per resident in Edenbridge than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 430 UK towns of 6,000 to 11,000 people, Edenbridge has the 347th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Throckley, Shepton Mallet and Thurmaston, higher than Epping, Harworth and Bircotes and Abercynon. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Edenbridge: C− for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 1,258 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Edenbridge against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Edenbridge runs highest on shoplifting (9.1 per 1,000 against 1.8), possession of weapons (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.4) and drugs (3.7 per 1,000 against 1). Public order sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 241 | 30.5 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 190 | 24 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 81 | 10.2 | 4.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 72 | 9.1 | 1.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 45 | 5.7 | 3.2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 29 | 3.7 | 1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 22 | 2.8 | 1.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 18 | 2.3 | 2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 17 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| Public order | not graded | 16 | 2 | 3.6 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 11 | 1.4 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 4 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 3 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0 |
“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.
Edenbridge against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | 6,763 | 9.6 | 5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 29 | Bearsted Kent | 8,349 | 14.8 | 7.1 | 4.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 53 | Kings Hill Kent | 9,963 | 15.9 | 8.1 | 5.3 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 59 | Otford and Kemsing Kent | 7,332 | 12.6 | 11.9 | 5 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 123 | Rusthall and Langton Green Kent | 7,783 | 21.8 | 8.1 | 3.4 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 344 | Epping Essex | 10,693 | 31.6 | 21.4 | 16.5 | C− |
| 345 | Harworth and Bircotes Nottinghamshire | 8,885 | 31.9 | 21.2 | 13.2 | C− |
| 346 | Abercynon Mid Glamorgan | 6,376 | 39.9 | 13.5 | 5.3 | C− |
| 347 | Edenbridge Kent | 7,903 | 37 | 16.4 | 13.9 | C− |
| 348 | Caerleon Gwent | 7,329 | 36.7 | 16.7 | 6 | C− |
| 349 | Clowne Derbyshire | 7,759 | 40.1 | 13.6 | 11.1 | C− |
| 350 | Pershore Worcestershire | 8,207 | 35.5 | 18.2 | 26.4 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 430 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | 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 Edenbridge, and others in Kent.
How crime in Edenbridge 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 -10% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +5% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +9% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +38% (towns its size +0%).
How Edenbridge’s neighbourhoods rank in England
6% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 21% 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.
Edenbridge’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.
Crime in Edenbridge 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 15 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 15 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police in Edenbridge identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 64% of Edenbridge’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 11% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (67% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 1% 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. 490 crimes.
Where in Edenbridge police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Petrol stations | 152 | 32% violent |
| Supermarkets | 96 | 67% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 63 | 37% homes & vehicles |
police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Edenbridge. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Edenbridge’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 40 collisions with injuries inside Edenbridge in five years. 11 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Edenbridge is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, Edenbridge had 27.8 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (16.7).
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 Edenbridge’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Edenbridge
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edenbridge | 7,903 | 37 | 16.4 | C− |
| Marlpit Hill | 1,271 | 40 | 14.7 | C− |
| Dormansland | 2,300 | 8.7 | 8 | A |
| Lingfield | 3,622 | 25 | 19.1 | C |
| Oxted | 11,491 | 21.1 | 12.6 | B− |
| Limpsfield | 2,247 | 14.1 | 13.1 | B |
| Westerham | 3,390 | 28.9 | 20.1 | C− |
| South Godstone | 1,525 | 17.1 | 9.5 | B+ |
Edenbridge records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Marlpit Hill records more. Dormansland, 3.7 miles away, records 8.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Edenbridge’s 37.
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 Edenbridge 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 Edenbridge
Is Edenbridge safe?
Police recorded 37 violent and sexual offences and 16.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Edenbridge’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 17% of UK towns. Among 430 UK towns of 6,000 to 11,000 people, Edenbridge is 347th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Edenbridge?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 10%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 9% and anti-social behaviour rose 38%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Edenbridge?
Violence & sexual offences: 241 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (81) and shoplifting (72), with 190 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Edenbridge 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 Edenbridge’s 37 and 16.4, 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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