Photo: David Martin · CC BY-SA 2.0Violence recorded in Hextable is down 32% in a year, while towns its size held steady
Hextable grades C+ for safety overall (#29 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.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Hextable
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 32% less violent crime per resident in Hextable 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 fell 19% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Hextable has the 432nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Boreham, Cringleford and Dartmouth, higher than Newlyn, Deepcar and Somerton. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Hextable grades C+ for safety
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
A fairly firm grade. Built on 452 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Hextable against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Violent crime down 32% in a year, while towns its size held steady
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 -32% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -19% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +56% (towns its size +0%).
“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).
How Hextable’s neighbourhoods rank in England
Hextable’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.
68% 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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
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.
Against the typical town its size, Hextable runs highest on criminal damage & arson (7.1 per 1,000 against 4.5) and anti-social behaviour (10.2 per 1,000 against 8.8). Public order and violence & sexual offences sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 65 | 15.9 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 42 | 10.2 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 29 | 7.1 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 11 | 2.7 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 11 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 9 | 2.2 | 1 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 9 | 2.2 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 8 | 2 | 1.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 5 | 1.2 | 1.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 5 | 1.2 | 1.9 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 2 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
“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.
Hextable is 432nd of 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Hextable, and others in Kent.
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 42 | Cuxton Kent | 3,039 | 9.7 | 7.4 | 2.9 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 46 | Istead Rise Kent | 3,398 | 9.7 | 7.6 | 5.9 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 69 | Hildenborough Kent | 4,943 | 11.3 | 7.5 | 7.4 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 100 | Iwade Kent | 4,533 | 15.2 | 5.7 | 3.5 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 429 | Newlyn Cornwall | 3,362 | 29 | 7.7 | 5.3 | C+ |
| 430 | Deepcar South Yorkshire | 5,644 | 24.4 | 12.3 | 5.8 | C+ |
| 431 | Somerton Somerset | 5,106 | 28.4 | 8.3 | 6 | C+ |
| 432 | Hextable Kent | 4,100 | 22.4 | 14.3 | 3.3 | C+ |
| 433 | Ynysybwl Mid Glamorgan | 4,580 | 28.1 | 8.7 | 3.6 | C+ |
| 434 | Treeton South Yorkshire | 3,272 | 23.6 | 13.1 | 2 | C+ |
| 435 | Ashburton Devon | 3,368 | 28.1 | 8.8 | 6 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 706 | 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.
For every 1,000 residents, about 16 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
And about 10 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 4 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
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. 193 crimes.
No suspect was identified for 68% of Hextable’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 4% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (80% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 4% of violent and 3% of household crimes reached court.
No one died in a collision on Hextable’s roads in 2021–2025
Collisions police recorded inside Hextable’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Police recorded 14 collisions with injuries inside Hextable in five years. 4 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 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 Hextable is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Hextable’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; Hextable had 4.
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.
Crime in the places around Hextable
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hextable | 4,100 | 22.4 | 14.3 | C+ |
| Joyden's Wood | 4,912 | 12.5 | 11.7 | B+ |
| Swanley | 17,209 | 35.7 | 16.8 | C− |
| Hawley | 1,386 | 18.5 | 9.1 | B |
| Crockenhill | 1,569 | 14 | 18.9 | B− |
| South Darenth and Sutton at Hone | 4,091 | 22.3 | 18.5 | C |
| Dartford | 69,131 | 43.5 | 20.8 | D |
| Farningham | 1,279 | 14.9 | 16.9 | B− |
Hextable records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Joyden's Wood, 1.1 miles away, records 12.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Hextable’s 22.4.
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 Hextable 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 Hextable
Is Hextable safe?
Police recorded 22.4 violent and sexual offences and 14.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Hextable’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 41% of UK towns. Among 706 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people, Hextable is 432nd from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Hextable?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 32%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 19%, shoplifting and theft rose 100% and anti-social behaviour rose 56%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Hextable?
Violence & sexual offences: 65 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (29) and public order (11), with 42 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Hextable compare with Bromley?
Bromley records 25.7 violent and sexual offences and 20.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Hextable’s 22.4 and 14.3, 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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