Crime Statistics for Cheriton, Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cheriton in September 2024. There were a total of 138 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cheriton, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime56
Criminal Damage Arson18
Shoplifting16
Anti Social Behaviour14
Other Theft11
Burglary7
Other Crime6
Public Order4
Vehicle Crime4
Drugs2
All Crime138

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 Cheriton. 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 Cheriton

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Morehall (0.62 miles)107
Coolinge (0.62 miles)106
Cheriton84
Peene (0.88 miles)68
Sandgate (0.88 miles)50
Horn Street (0.88 miles)43
Shorncliffe Camp (0.62 miles)36
Arpinge (1.86 miles)8
Frogholt (1.39 miles)2
Newington (1.39 miles)2

8.88%
of Hythe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cheriton?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cheriton56
Coolinge47
Morehall31
Sandgate30
Peene28
Shorncliffe Camp25
Horn Street14
Arpinge0
Frogholt0
Newington0

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

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 Cheriton 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 Cheriton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Folkestone Harbour83
2East Folkestone78
3Folkestone Central78
4Broadmead71
5Cheriton43
6Alkham & Capel-le-Ferne41
7Romney Marsh37
8Sandgate & West Folkestone27
9Hythe Rural26
10Hythe26
11North Downs West21

Which road in Cheriton has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Cheriton 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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