Crime Statistics for Gravesend, Gravesham, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gravesend in September 2024. There were a total of 857 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 Gravesend, 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	245
Shoplifting	106
Vehicle Crime	103
Criminal Damage Arson	102
Anti Social Behaviour	86
Other Theft	58
Drugs	46
Public Order	40
Other Crime	29
Burglary	18
Theft From The Person	12
Possession Of Weapons	6
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	857

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 Gravesend. 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 Gravesend

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gravesend	809
Milton	795
Grays (3.1 miles)	214
Tilbury (1.39 miles)	178
New House (1.75 miles)	169
Biggin (1.86 miles)	160
Istead Rise (2.78 miles)	17
Shorne (3.1 miles)	16
Shorne Ridgeway (3.51 miles)	13
Southfleet (3.1 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Gravesend?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Milton	256
Gravesend	245
Biggin	74
Grays	72
Tilbury	67
New House	54
Shorne	6
Istead Rise	5
Shorne Ridgeway	5
Southfleet	5

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

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 Gravesend 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 Gravesend compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gravesend and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Gravesend is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Westcourt	96
2	Riverside	93
3	Pelham	91
4	Northfleet North	90
5	Central	89
6	Coldharbour	86
7	Singlewell	86
8	Chalk	83
9	Northfleet South	83
10	Whitehill	83
11	Woodlands	83

Which road in Gravesend has the highest level of crime?

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