Crime Statistics for Isle of Sheppey, Swale, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Isle of Sheppey in October 2024. There were a total of 86 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 Isle of Sheppey, 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 Crime35
Anti Social Behaviour18
Criminal Damage Arson12
Shoplifting7
Vehicle Crime5
Other Theft3
Drugs2
Burglary2
Possession Of Weapons1
Public Order1
All Crime86

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 Isle of Sheppey. 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 Isle of Sheppey

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Marine Town (2.25 miles)475
Sheerness (3.12 miles)291
Minster-in-Sheppey (0.82 miles)210
Blue Town (3.12 miles)186
Mile Town (2.75 miles)183
Isle of Sheppey86
Halfway Houses (1.38 miles)70
Tonge Corner (4.31 miles)37
Rushenden (3 miles)19
Bay View (3.98 miles)1

5.06%
of Sheppey Central residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Isle of Sheppey?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Marine Town404
Minster-in-Sheppey180
Sheerness140
Blue Town76
Mile Town74
Isle of Sheppey35
Halfway Houses32
Tonge Corner12
Rushenden7
Bay View0

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

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 Isle of Sheppey 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 Isle of Sheppey compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Isle of Sheppey and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Isle of Sheppey is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Sheerness90
2Sheppey East88
3Milton Regis80
4Roman80
5Murston75
6Sheppey Central69
7Teynham and Lynsted63
8Kemsley62
9Minster Cliffs59
10Queenborough and Halfway57

Which road in Isle of Sheppey has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
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