Crime Statistics for Cooling Street, Cliffe Woods, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cooling Street in September 2024. There were a total of 8 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	3
Violent Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Public Order	1
All Crime	8

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 Cooling Street. 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 Cooling Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Frindsbury (3.11 miles)	435
Lower Upnor (2.24 miles)	124
Chattenden (1.96 miles)	116
Hoo St Werburgh (2.77 miles)	44
Lower Higham (1.96 miles)	25
Higham (2.63 miles)	22
Cooling (1.39 miles)	13
Cooling Street	8
Church Street (1.86 miles)	6
High Halstow (2.55 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Cooling Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Frindsbury	174
Lower Upnor	45
Chattenden	42
Hoo St Werburgh	15
Lower Higham	13
Higham	7
Cooling	7
Church Street	4
Cooling Street	2
High Halstow	0

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

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 Cooling Street 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 Cooling Street compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cooling Street and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Cooling Street have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Chatham Central.

#	Ward	Score
1	Chatham Central	92
2	Gillingham North	90
3	Gillingham South	90
4	Luton and Wayfield	89
5	Rochester West	84
6	Rochester East	83
7	River	75
8	Strood South	74
9	Higham	69
10	Strood North	63
11	Strood Rural	56

Which road in Cooling Street has the highest level of crime?

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