Crime Statistics for Frindsbury, Strood, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Frindsbury in August 2024. There were a total of 500 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 Frindsbury, 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 Crime162
Anti Social Behaviour90
Shoplifting64
Criminal Damage Arson44
Public Order33
Other Theft29
Vehicle Crime21
Drugs18
Other Crime11
Burglary9
Theft From The Person6
Robbery5
Possession Of Weapons4
Bicycle Theft4
All Crime500

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 Frindsbury. 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 Frindsbury

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Brompton (1.39 miles)821
Gillingham (2.24 miles)800
Frindsbury500
Chatham (2.78 miles)253
Wayfield (2.56 miles)242
Chattenden (1.39 miles)116
Lower Upnor (1.75 miles)108
Borstal (1.96 miles)78
Hoo St Werburgh (3.1 miles)69
Higham (2.24 miles)24

13.2%
of Strood South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Frindsbury?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Gillingham319
Brompton315
Frindsbury162
Chatham96
Wayfield82
Chattenden42
Borstal39
Lower Upnor38
Hoo St Werburgh27
Higham20

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

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 Frindsbury 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 Frindsbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Frindsbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Frindsbury is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1Chatham Central92
2Gillingham North90
3Luton and Wayfield89
4Rochester West84
5Rochester East83
6River75
7Strood South74
8Higham69
9Strood North63
10Rochester South and Horsted62
11Strood Rural56

Which road in Frindsbury has the highest level of crime?

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