Crime Statistics for Gillingham, Chatham, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gillingham in September 2024. There were a total of 1252 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 Gillingham, 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	519
Anti Social Behaviour	152
Criminal Damage Arson	114
Other Theft	98
Public Order	74
Shoplifting	70
Burglary	62
Vehicle Crime	44
Drugs	32
Theft From The Person	22
Possession Of Weapons	22
Other Crime	21
Robbery	16
Bicycle Theft	6
All Crime	1252

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gillingham	1249
Brompton (0.88 miles)	821
Frindsbury (2.24 miles)	435
Grange (1.39 miles)	270
Chatham (1.39 miles)	253
Wayfield (1.75 miles)	231
Capstone (1.39 miles)	183
Lower Twydall (1.86 miles)	181
Twydall (1.39 miles)	101
Hempstead (2.24 miles)	67

Where are the most violent places near Gillingham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gillingham	519
Brompton	315
Frindsbury	174
Grange	112
Chatham	96
Capstone	80
Wayfield	78
Lower Twydall	78
Twydall	37
Hempstead	23

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

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 Gillingham 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 Gillingham compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Gillingham and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Gillingham is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Chatham Central	92
2	Gillingham North	90
3	Gillingham South	90
4	Luton and Wayfield	89
5	Rochester West	84
6	River	75
7	Twydall	68
8	Watling	67
9	Rochester South and Horsted	62
10	Lordswood and Capstone	61
11	Hempstead and Wigmore	27

Which road in Gillingham has the highest level of crime?

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