Crime Statistics for Hernhill, Swale, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hernhill in August 2024. There were a total of 14 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Violent Crime	4
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	14

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 Hernhill. 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 Hernhill

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hernhill	13
Dunkirk (0.88 miles)	10
Hickmans Green (1.24 miles)	8
Boughton Street (0.62 miles)	8
Graveney (1.39 miles)	8
Crouch (1.39 miles)	7
Goodnestone (1.39 miles)	6
Culmers (1.39 miles)	6
Waterham (1.39 miles)	5
Fostall (0.62 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Hernhill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Dunkirk	7
Boughton Street	5
Hernhill	4
Graveney	4
Hickmans Green	3
Crouch	3
Culmers	2
Goodnestone	1
Waterham	1
Fostall	0

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

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 Hernhill 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 Hernhill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hernhill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hernhill is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Priory	72
2	Gorrell	71
3	East Downs	65
4	Watling	63
5	Abbey	62
6	Boughton and Courtenay	58
7	St Ann's	58
8	Seasalter	47
9	Downs North	46
10	Chartham & Stone Street	45
11	Chestfield	25

Which road in Hernhill has the highest level of crime?

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