Police recorded 75 crimes in the Sevenoaks area in May 2026. The full breakdown by crime type, the streets with the most reports, and how to check your own street, from the police.uk open data.

Police recorded 75 crimes in the Sevenoaks area in May 2026, up from 63 the month before, according to the latest Home Office street-level figures. The most common type of offence was violence and sexual offences, which made up 23 reports, around 31 per cent of the total. The chart above and the table below break down every category from the official data.

These are crimes recorded by the police, not convictions, and they cover the square mile around the centre of Sevenoaks. A single incident can involve more than one offence. The numbers come straight from the police.uk open-data service and are published here under the Open Government Licence.

Crime in Sevenoaks by type, May 2026

Crime type Reports Change on previous month
Violence and sexual offences 23 up 14
Anti-social behaviour 17 up 5
Shoplifting 11 down 3
Criminal damage and arson 5 down 2
Drugs 4 up 3
Burglary 3 up 2
Other theft 3 down 6
Vehicle crime 3 down 1
Other crime 3 up 1
Public order 2 up 2
Bicycle theft 1 up 1
All crime 75 up 12

Where crime was reported in Sevenoaks

Police map each report to the nearest street, road or landmark rather than an exact address, so these are the places with the most reports near them in the month, not the only places anything happened:

  • Parking Area: 17 reports
  • Supermarket: 6 reports
  • Oak Tree Close: 5 reports
  • South Park: 4 reports
  • Theatre/concert Hall: 4 reports

What happened to these cases

The single most common outcome recorded was “investigation complete; no suspect identified” (24 cases). Outcomes can take time to be added to the data, so the most recent month usually shows a high share of cases still under investigation or awaiting an outcome.

How to check crime on your own street

You can see every recorded crime, and the outcome of each case, for any postcode on the official police.uk street-level map. To report a crime, call 101 (or 999 in an emergency), report online through Kent Police, or pass information anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most common crime in Sevenoaks? In May 2026 it was violence and sexual offences, with 23 reports.

Is Sevenoaks safe? Crime figures alone cannot answer that. Use the breakdown above as a guide, look at the trend over several months rather than one, and check the police.uk map for your own street.

How often is this updated? The Home Office publishes the street-level data once a month, usually about six to eight weeks in arrears, and this page is refreshed each time the new figures land.

Where does the data come from? The open data published at data.police.uk, used under the Open Government Licence.

Figures: police.uk street-level crime open data (data.police.uk), May 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Data is provisional and covers the one-mile radius around the centre of Sevenoaks. Chart by The Sevenoaks Post from the same data.