Crime Statistics for Hempstead, Gillingham, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hempstead in September 2024. There were a total of 78 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Hempstead, 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	23
Other Theft	13
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Anti Social Behaviour	9
Shoplifting	6
Drugs	6
Other Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Public Order	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	78

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 Hempstead. 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 Hempstead

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chatham (1.96 miles)	253
Capstone (0.88 miles)	183
Rainham (1.39 miles)	155
Moor Street (1.96 miles)	117
Twydall (1.24 miles)	101
Lords Wood (1.75 miles)	90
Hempstead	67
Farthing Corner (1.39 miles)	30
Bredhurst (1.24 miles)	26
Kemsley Street (1.39 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Hempstead?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chatham	96
Capstone	80
Rainham	57
Twydall	37
Moor Street	36
Lords Wood	28
Hempstead	23
Farthing Corner	12
Kemsley Street	8
Bredhurst	6

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

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 Hempstead 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 Hempstead compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hempstead and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hempstead is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Gillingham South	90
2	Luton and Wayfield	89
3	Twydall	68
4	Watling	67
5	Rochester South and Horsted	62
6	Lordswood and Capstone	61
7	Princes Park	61
8	Walderslade	60
9	Rainham South	45
10	Rainham Central	42
11	Hempstead and Wigmore	27

Which road in Hempstead has the highest level of crime?

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