Crime Statistics for Borstal, Rochester, Kent, 2025

Is Borstal rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 140 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Borstal, 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	52
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Crime	18
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Public Order	8
Vehicle Crime	6
Drugs	6
Other Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	4
Burglary	2
All Crime	140

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Borstal. 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 Borstal

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brompton (2.23 miles)	786
Gillingham (2.55 miles)	638
Frindsbury (1.96 miles)	370
Chatham (1.96 miles)	364
Wayfield (1.39 miles)	192
Borstal	113
Halling (2.24 miles)	56
Burham (2.56 miles)	39
Cuxton (1.86 miles)	14
Upper Bush (2.48 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Borstal?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brompton	350
Gillingham	311
Chatham	177
Frindsbury	129
Wayfield	64
Borstal	52
Burham	13
Halling	11
Cuxton	4
Upper Bush	2

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

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 Borstal 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 Borstal compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Borstal and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Borstal 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	Rochester West	84
3	Rochester East	83
4	River	75
5	Strood South	74
6	Burham and Wouldham	63
7	Rochester South and Horsted	62
8	Princes Park	61
9	Walderslade	60
10	Aylesford North and Walderslade	53
11	Cuxton and Halling	51

Which road in Borstal has the highest level of crime?

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