Crime Statistics for Halfway Houses, Swale, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Halfway Houses in October 2024. There were a total of 70 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 Halfway Houses, 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	32
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Vehicle Crime	7
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Drugs	3
Other Crime	3
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Theft	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	70

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 Halfway Houses. 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 Halfway Houses

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Marine Town (0.88 miles)	475
Sheerness (1.75 miles)	291
Minster-in-Sheppey (1.24 miles)	210
Blue Town (1.75 miles)	186
Mile Town (1.39 miles)	183
Isle of Sheppey (1.38 miles)	86
Halfway Houses	70
Iwade (4.47 miles)	19
Rushenden (2.24 miles)	19
Grain (3.61 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Halfway Houses?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Marine Town	404
Minster-in-Sheppey	180
Sheerness	140
Blue Town	76
Mile Town	74
Isle of Sheppey	35
Halfway Houses	32
Iwade	10
Rushenden	7
Grain	1

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

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 Halfway Houses 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 Halfway Houses compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Halfway Houses and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Halfway Houses is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Sheerness	90
2	Sheppey East	88
3	Milton Regis	80
4	Murston	75
5	Sheppey Central	69
6	Teynham and Lynsted	63
7	Kemsley	62
8	Minster Cliffs	59
9	Queenborough and Halfway	57
10	Peninsula	52

Which road in Halfway Houses has the highest level of crime?

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