Crime Statistics for Buckland, Dover, Kent, 2025

Is Buckland rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 444 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Buckland, 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	200
Shoplifting	46
Anti Social Behaviour	42
Other Theft	40
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Drugs	28
Other Crime	14
Public Order	12
Burglary	10
Possession Of Weapons	8
Robbery	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	444

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 Buckland. 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 Buckland

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dover (0.88 miles)	471
Buckland	410
Buckland Valley (0.62 miles)	297
Tower Hamlets (0.62 miles)	278
Church Whitfield (1.96 miles)	76
Aycliff (1.24 miles)	47
Maxton (1.24 miles)	47
Farthingloe (1.39 miles)	28
Temple Ewell (1.75 miles)	16
Kearnsey (1.39 miles)	15

Where are the most violent places near Buckland?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tower Hamlets	248
Dover	213
Buckland	200
Buckland Valley	165
Church Whitfield	32
Farthingloe	20
Aycliff	17
Maxton	17
Temple Ewell	5
Kearnsey	3

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

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 Buckland 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 Buckland compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Buckland and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Buckland have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Dover Downs & River.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Radigunds	95
2	Tower Hamlets	92
3	Buckland	87
4	Folkestone Harbour	83
5	Town & Castle	80
6	Maxton & Elms Vale	58
7	Whitfield	57
8	Aylesham, Eythorne & Shepherdswell	49
9	Alkham & Capel-le-Ferne	41
10	North Downs East	36
11	Dover Downs & River	31

Which road in Buckland has the highest level of crime?

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