Crime Statistics for Bredhurst, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bredhurst in September 2024. There were a total of 26 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour7
Violent Crime6
Other Theft4
Shoplifting3
Other Crime2
Criminal Damage Arson2
Drugs1
Public Order1
All Crime26

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Capstone (1.96 miles)183
Moor Street (2.63 miles)124
Rainham (2.24 miles)116
Twydall (2.48 miles)102
Lords Wood (1.24 miles)64
Hempstead (1.24 miles)60
Farthing Corner (1.39 miles)53
Bredhurst26
Kemsley Street (0.62 miles)26
Lower Cox Street (1.75 miles)3

7.04%
of Rainham South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Twydall85
Capstone80
Moor Street60
Rainham41
Hempstead34
Lords Wood23
Farthing Corner22
Kemsley Street10
Bredhurst6
Lower Cox Street2

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.

#WardScore
1Watling67
2Burham and Wouldham63
3Lordswood and Capstone61
4Princes Park61
5Walderslade60
6Aylesford North and Walderslade53
7Rainham South45
8Rainham Central42
9Detling and Thurnham41
10Boxley31
11Hempstead and Wigmore27

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.

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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