Crime Statistics for Bredhurst, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bredhurst in October 2024. There were a total of 36 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	7
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Violent Crime	6
Other Theft	4
Public Order	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Robbery	1
Other Crime	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	36

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rainham (2.24 miles)	193
Moor Street (2.63 miles)	126
Capstone (1.96 miles)	113
Twydall (2.48 miles)	83
Farthing Corner (1.39 miles)	64
Lords Wood (1.24 miles)	62
Hempstead (1.24 miles)	50
Bredhurst	36
Kemsley Street (0.62 miles)	15
Lower Cox Street (1.75 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Bredhurst?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rainham	81
Moor Street	59
Farthing Corner	55
Capstone	40
Twydall	23
Lords Wood	16
Hempstead	15
Kemsley Street	8
Bredhurst	6
Lower Cox Street	1

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

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 Bredhurst 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 Bredhurst compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bredhurst and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bredhurst is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Watling	67
2	Burham and Wouldham	63
3	Lordswood and Capstone	61
4	Princes Park	61
5	Walderslade	60
6	Aylesford North and Walderslade	53
7	Rainham South	45
8	Rainham Central	42
9	Detling and Thurnham	41
10	Boxley	31
11	Hempstead and Wigmore	27

Which road in Bredhurst has the highest level of crime?

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