Crime Statistics for Broadstairs, Thanet, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broadstairs in October 2024. 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 Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Broadstairs, 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	70
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Vehicle Crime	14
Other Theft	10
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Drugs	6
Public Order	6
Shoplifting	4
Burglary	3
Other Crime	2
All Crime	140

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 Broadstairs. 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 Broadstairs

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dumpton (0.88 miles)	562
Northwood (1.24 miles)	293
Bromstone (0.62 miles)	261
Ramsgate (1.96 miles)	214
Isle of Thanet (1.83 miles)	201
St Peter’s (0.88 miles)	177
Reading Street (1.39 miles)	162
St Lawrence (2.23 miles)	144
Broadstairs	140
Haine (2.55 miles)	74

Where are the most violent places near Broadstairs?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dumpton	261
Bromstone	121
Northwood	109
Ramsgate	82
Reading Street	76
Broadstairs	70
Isle of Thanet	66
St Peter’s	64
St Lawrence	55
Haine	29

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

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 Broadstairs 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 Broadstairs compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Broadstairs and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Broadstairs is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central Harbour	94
2	Northwood	92
3	Eastcliff	91
4	Newington	88
5	Sir Moses Montefiore	77
6	Viking	65
7	Beacon Road	62
8	St Peters	57
9	Nethercourt	51
10	Kingsgate	47
11	Bradstowe	39

Which road in Broadstairs has the highest level of crime?

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