Crime Statistics for Chilham, Ashford, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Chilham in August 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Chilham, 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 Crime2
Public Order1
All Crime3

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Chilham. 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 Chilham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chartham (2.55 miles)24
Chartham Hatch (3.1 miles)24
Shalmsford Street (1.96 miles)14
Hickmans Green (3.1 miles)8
Molash (2.77 miles)5
Chilham3
Rhode Common (1.86 miles)2
Bagham (0.62 miles)2
Hogben’s Hill (2.63 miles)1
Shottenden (1.39 miles)0

8.57%
of Downs North residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Chilham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chartham6
Chartham Hatch5
Shalmsford Street3
Hickmans Green3
Molash3
Chilham2
Rhode Common1
Bagham0
Hogben’s Hill0
Shottenden0

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

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 Chilham 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 Chilham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Chilham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Chilham is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Wincheap74
2East Downs65
3Charing65
4Abbey62
5Downs West52
6Downs North46
7Chartham & Stone Street45
8Bircholt43
9Kennington41
10Wye with Hinxhill41
11Goat Lees34

Which road in Chilham has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0