Crime Statistics for Chartham Hatch, Canterbury, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chartham Hatch in September 2024. There were a total of 9 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Chartham Hatch, 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	4
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	9

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 Chartham Hatch. 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 Chartham Hatch

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Canterbury (2.55 miles)	417
Harbledown (2.24 miles)	300
Thanington (1.86 miles)	63
Rough Common (2.24 miles)	29
Chartham (1.24 miles)	13
Horton (0.88 miles)	9
Chartham Hatch	9
Shalmsford Street (1.39 miles)	7
Upper Harbledown (1.39 miles)	5
Rhode Common (2.48 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Chartham Hatch?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Harbledown	149
Canterbury	133
Thanington	19
Rough Common	16
Chartham	7
Horton	4
Chartham Hatch	4
Shalmsford Street	4
Upper Harbledown	2
Rhode Common	1

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

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 Chartham Hatch 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 Chartham Hatch compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	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	Seasalter	47
9	Downs North	46
10	Chartham & Stone Street	45
11	Blean Forest	37

Which road in Chartham Hatch has the highest level of crime?

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