Crime Statistics for Canterbury, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Canterbury in October 2024. There were a total of 429 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 Canterbury, 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	152
Shoplifting	67
Anti Social Behaviour	55
Criminal Damage Arson	36
Public Order	31
Drugs	28
Other Theft	24
Vehicle Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	8
Theft From The Person	6
Burglary	5
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	429

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 Canterbury. 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 Canterbury

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hales Place (1.24 miles)	608
Canterbury	429
Harbledown (0.88 miles)	254
Tyler Hill (1.86 miles)	104
Thanington (0.88 miles)	63
Rough Common (1.75 miles)	18
Blean (2.24 miles)	13
Horton (2.23 miles)	10
Upper Harbledown (1.96 miles)	1
Bekesbourne Hill (2.55 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Canterbury?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hales Place	193
Canterbury	152
Harbledown	125
Tyler Hill	45
Thanington	19
Horton	11
Rough Common	9
Blean	6
Upper Harbledown	1
Bekesbourne Hill	1

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

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 Canterbury 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 Canterbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Canterbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Canterbury is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Northgate	74
2	Wincheap	74
3	Westgate	69
4	Barton	67
5	St Stephen's	64
6	Boughton and Courtenay	58
7	Sturry	54
8	Downs North	46
9	Chartham & Stone Street	45
10	Blean Forest	37
11	Little Stour & Adisham	34

Which road in Canterbury has the highest level of crime?

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