Crime Statistics for Horton, Canterbury, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Horton in October 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 Violent Crime, followed by Robbery.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Horton, 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	11
Robbery	1
Other Crime	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	14

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 Horton. 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 Horton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Canterbury (2.23 miles)	429
Harbledown (2.24 miles)	254
Thanington (1.39 miles)	63
Chartham (0.88 miles)	20
Rough Common (2.56 miles)	18
Chartham Hatch (0.88 miles)	13
Shalmsford Street (1.39 miles)	11
Horton	10
Upper Harbledown (1.86 miles)	1
Bagham (2.77 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Horton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Canterbury	152
Harbledown	125
Thanington	19
Horton	11
Rough Common	9
Chartham	6
Chartham Hatch	5
Shalmsford Street	5
Upper Harbledown	1
Bagham	1

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

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 Horton 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 Horton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Horton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Horton is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Northgate	74
2	Wincheap	74
3	Westgate	69
4	Barton	67
5	St Stephen's	64
6	Boughton and Courtenay	58
7	Sturry	54
8	Downs North	46
9	Chartham & Stone Street	45
10	Blean Forest	37
11	Little Stour & Adisham	34

Which road in Horton has the highest level of crime?

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