Crime Statistics for Gore Street, Thanet, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gore Street in September 2024. There were a total of 7 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 Gore 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 Crime4
Criminal Damage Arson2
Other Crime1
All Crime7

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 Gore 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 Gore Street

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Birchington (3.1 miles)38
Way (3.1 miles)14
Minster-in-Thanet (1.96 miles)11
Acol (2.23 miles)8
Gore Street6
Wall End (2.77 miles)5
St Nicholas-at-Wade (0.88 miles)5
Great Stour (2.31 miles)4
Potten Street (1.75 miles)2
Boyden Gate (3.1 miles)1

5.67%
of Birchington South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Gore Street?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Birchington14
Way11
Minster-in-Thanet10
Gore Street4
Acol3
St Nicholas-at-Wade3
Wall End2
Great Stour1
Potten Street1
Boyden Gate1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Gore 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 Gore 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 Gore Street compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Northwood92
2Garlinge80
3Westbrook72
4Thanet Villages64
5Westgate-on-Sea48
6Reculver43
7Birchington South42
8Beltinge35
9Herne & Broomfield26
10Sandwich26
11Birchington North24

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

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

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