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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Coolinge in October 2024. There were a total of 492 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Coolinge, 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	223
Anti Social Behaviour	108
Criminal Damage Arson	48
Shoplifting	36
Public Order	20
Vehicle Crime	16
Other Theft	12
Other Crime	9
Drugs	8
Bicycle Theft	8
Burglary	4
All Crime	492

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 Coolinge. 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 Coolinge

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Coolinge	246
Morehall	124
Sandgate (0.62 miles)	101
Cheriton (0.62 miles)	93
Shorncliffe Camp (0.88 miles)	42
Peene (1.39 miles)	40
Gibraltar (1.86 miles)	27
Horn Street (1.39 miles)	10
Frogholt (1.96 miles)	1
Newington (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Coolinge?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Coolinge	223
Morehall	56
Sandgate	37
Cheriton	36
Shorncliffe Camp	15
Peene	14
Gibraltar	12
Horn Street	2
Frogholt	1
Newington	1

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

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 Coolinge 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 Coolinge compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Coolinge and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Coolinge is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Folkestone Harbour	83
2	East Folkestone	78
3	Folkestone Central	78
4	Broadmead	71
5	Cheriton	43
6	Alkham & Capel-le-Ferne	41
7	Romney Marsh	37
8	Sandgate & West Folkestone	27
9	Hythe Rural	26
10	Hythe	26
11	North Downs West	21

Which road in Coolinge has the highest level of crime?

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