Crime Statistics for Great Buckland, Gravesham, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Great Buckland in October 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 Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Other Theft	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	7

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 Great Buckland. 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 Great Buckland

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halling (2.55 miles)	51
Upper Halling (1.96 miles)	23
Birling (2.24 miles)	18
South Street (1.86 miles)	12
Harvel (1.24 miles)	11
Hodsoll Street (2.48 miles)	11
Culverstone Green (1.96 miles)	9
Great Buckland	7
Coomb Hill (0.62 miles)	6
Foxendown (1.39 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Great Buckland?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halling	20
Upper Halling	11
Birling	9
South Street	2
Hodsoll Street	2
Culverstone Green	2
Harvel	1
Foxendown	1
Great Buckland	0
Coomb Hill	0

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

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 Great Buckland 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 Great Buckland compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Ash and New Ash Green	72
2	Snodland East and Ham Hill	66
3	Shorne, Cobham and Luddesdown	64
4	Istead Rise	59
5	Cuxton and Halling	51
6	Larkfield South	51
7	Meopham North	49
8	Meopham South and Vigo	49
9	Hartley and Hodsoll Street	49
10	Snodland West and Holborough Lakes	41
11	Larkfield North	37

Which road in Great Buckland has the highest level of crime?

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