Crime Statistics for Hoo St Werburgh, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Hoo St Werburgh in October 2024. There were a total of 56 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 Hoo St Werburgh, 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	26
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Other Theft	6
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Burglary	3
Drugs	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Crime	2
Public Order	2
All Crime	56

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 Hoo St Werburgh. 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 Hoo St Werburgh

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Brompton (2.78 miles)	849
Grange (2.56 miles)	441
Frindsbury (3.1 miles)	384
Lower Upnor (1.39 miles)	75
Chattenden (1.96 miles)	66
Hoo St Werburgh	56
Cooling Street (2.77 miles)	11
High Halstow (1.86 miles)	4
Fenn Street (1.96 miles)	3
North Street (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Hoo St Werburgh?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Brompton	347
Grange	195
Frindsbury	137
Hoo St Werburgh	26
Lower Upnor	19
Chattenden	15
Cooling Street	7
High Halstow	0
Fenn Street	0
North Street	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Hoo St Werburgh?

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 Hoo St Werburgh 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 Hoo St Werburgh compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hoo St Werburgh and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Hoo St Werburgh is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Chatham Central	92
2	Gillingham North	90
3	Gillingham South	90
4	Luton and Wayfield	89
5	Rochester West	84
6	River	75
7	Strood South	74
8	Twydall	68
9	Watling	67
10	Rainham North	64
11	Strood Rural	56

Which road in Hoo St Werburgh has the highest level of crime?

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