Crime Statistics for Fant, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

Is Fant rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 219 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 Fant, 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 Crime99
Criminal Damage Arson24
Other Theft21
Anti Social Behaviour18
Vehicle Crime12
Public Order10
Shoplifting10
Drugs9
Other Crime7
Burglary6
Bicycle Theft2
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime219

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Maidstone (1.24 miles)770
Penenden Heath (1.75 miles)410
Fant219
Tovil (0.88 miles)163
Allington (1.24 miles)128
Barming Heath (1.24 miles)84
Sandling (1.96 miles)68
Royal British Legion Village (1.75 miles)43
Loose Hill (1.96 miles)26
Kettle Corner (1.75 miles)7

20.26%
of Heath (Maidstone) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Fant?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Maidstone298
Penenden Heath136
Fant99
Tovil68
Allington51
Barming Heath50
Sandling32
Royal British Legion Village16
Loose Hill14
Kettle Corner4

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

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 Fant 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 Fant compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fant and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Fant is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1High Street82
2Fant72
3North52
4Bridge52
5Heath50
6South45
7East44
8Aylesford South40
9Ditton32
10Barming and Teston28
11Allington11

Which road in Fant has the highest level of crime?

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

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

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