Crime Statistics for Chatham, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chatham in September 2024. There were a total of 253 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Chatham, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	96
Shoplifting	41
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Criminal Damage Arson	25
Public Order	12
Burglary	12
Other Theft	12
Drugs	5
Other Crime	5
Vehicle Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	253

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Chatham. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Chatham

We've taken the ten nearest places to Chatham and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Chatham has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Gillingham (1.39 miles)	1249
Brompton (1.86 miles)	821
Chatham	253
Wayfield (0.62 miles)	231
Capstone (1.24 miles)	183
Twydall (1.96 miles)	101
Lords Wood (1.96 miles)	90
Borstal (1.96 miles)	78
Hempstead (1.96 miles)	67
Blue Bell Hill (2.24 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Chatham?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Chatham and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Gillingham	519
Brompton	315
Chatham	96
Capstone	80
Wayfield	78
Borstal	39
Twydall	37
Lords Wood	28
Hempstead	23
Blue Bell Hill	7

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Chatham?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Chatham to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Chatham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chatham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chatham is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Chatham Central	92
2	Gillingham South	90
3	Luton and Wayfield	89
4	Watling	67
5	Burham and Wouldham	63
6	Rochester South and Horsted	62
7	Lordswood and Capstone	61
8	Princes Park	61
9	Walderslade	60
10	Aylesford North and Walderslade	53
11	Hempstead and Wigmore	27

Which road in Chatham has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Chatham with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.