Crime Statistics for Barfrestone, Dover, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barfrestone in September 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Anti Social Behaviour	3
All Crime	7

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 Barfrestone. 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 Barfrestone

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Aylesham (2.24 miles)	44
Ratling (2.24 miles)	22
Adisham (3.1 miles)	15
Eythorne (1.39 miles)	8
Lower Eythorne (1.39 miles)	8
Barfrestone	4
Chillenden (1.86 miles)	4
Coldred (2.56 miles)	3
Stonehall (3.1 miles)	3
Frogham (0.62 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Barfrestone?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Aylesham	56
Ratling	14
Adisham	11
Eythorne	4
Lower Eythorne	4
Barfrestone	0
Chillenden	0
Coldred	0
Stonehall	0
Frogham	0

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

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 Barfrestone 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 Barfrestone compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barfrestone and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Barfrestone is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Radigunds	95
2	Buckland	87
3	Whitfield	57
4	Aylesham, Eythorne & Shepherdswell	49
5	Eastry Rural	42
6	North Downs East	36
7	Nailbourne	35
8	Little Stour & Adisham	34
9	Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe	32
10	Dover Downs & River	31
11	Little Stour & Ashstone	29

Which road in Barfrestone has the highest level of crime?

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