Crime Statistics for Cop Street, Dover, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cop Street in October 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 Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cop Street, 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 Crime5
Criminal Damage Arson2
Anti Social Behaviour1
Other Crime1
All Crime9

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 Cop Street. 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 Cop Street

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ash (near Sandwich) (0.62 miles)9
Weddington9
Cop Street9
Each End (0.88 miles)9
Upper Goldstone (0.62 miles)7
Coombe (1.24 miles)7
Cooper Street (0.62 miles)7
Durlock (1.75 miles)4
Marshborough (1.39 miles)2
Shatterling (1.96 miles)1

7.03%
of Sandwich residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Cop Street?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ash (near Sandwich)5
Weddington5
Cop Street5
Cooper Street5
Each End4
Upper Goldstone4
Coombe2
Durlock1
Marshborough0
Shatterling0

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

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 Cop Street 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 Cop Street compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cop Street and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Cop Street have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Newington.

#WardScore
1Newington88
2Cliffsend and Pegwell60
3Nethercourt51
4Aylesham, Eythorne & Shepherdswell49
5Westgate-on-Sea48
6Reculver43
7Birchington South42
8Eastry Rural42
9Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe32
10Little Stour & Ashstone29
11Sandwich26

Which road in Cop Street has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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