Crime Statistics for Hales Place, Canterbury, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hales Place in August 2024. There were a total of 341 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 Hales Place, 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 Crime114
Anti Social Behaviour60
Shoplifting32
Public Order28
Other Theft23
Criminal Damage Arson22
Burglary19
Drugs12
Other Crime7
Vehicle Crime6
Theft From The Person6
Bicycle Theft5
Possession Of Weapons5
Robbery2
All Crime341

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 Hales Place. 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 Hales Place

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Canterbury (1.24 miles)415
Hales Place341
Harbledown (0.88 miles)208
Tyler Hill (0.62 miles)89
Broad Oak (1.75 miles)84
Thanington (1.96 miles)77
Rough Common (1.24 miles)12
Blean (1.39 miles)10
Upper Harbledown (1.96 miles)2
Honey Hill (2.24 miles)0

27.87%
of Westgate (Canterbury) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hales Place?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Canterbury133
Hales Place114
Harbledown71
Tyler Hill47
Broad Oak40
Thanington21
Blean6
Rough Common2
Upper Harbledown0
Honey Hill0

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

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 Hales Place 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 Hales Place compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Northgate74
2Wincheap74
3Westgate69
4Barton67
5St Stephen's64
6Boughton and Courtenay58
7Sturry54
8Seasalter47
9Chartham & Stone Street45
10Blean Forest37
11Little Stour & Adisham34

Which road in Hales Place has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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