Crime Statistics for Lade, Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lade in October 2024. There was only 2 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lade, 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	2
All Crime	2

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 Lade. 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 Lade

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Littlestone-on-Sea (2.56 miles)	35
St Mary’s Bay (4.35 miles)	29
New Romney (2.78 miles)	27
Jury’s Gap (6.32 miles)	19
Dymchurch (5.72 miles)	10
St Mary in the Marsh (4.52 miles)	7
Greatstone-on-Sea (1.24 miles)	4
Lade	2
Ivychurch (5.72 miles)	1
Dungeness (2.56 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Lade?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Littlestone-on-Sea	21
New Romney	18
St Mary’s Bay	13
Jury’s Gap	9
Dymchurch	4
St Mary in the Marsh	4
Lade	2
Greatstone-on-Sea	1
Ivychurch	0
Dungeness	0

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

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 Lade 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 Lade compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lade and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lade is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Eastern Rother	50
2	Rye & Winchelsea	44
3	Walland & Denge Marsh	44
4	New Romney	39
5	Romney Marsh	37
6	Saxon Shore	36
7	Park Farm South	36
8	Brede & Udimore	34
9	Hythe Rural	26
10	Isle of Oxney	26
11	Hythe	26

Which road in Lade has the highest level of crime?

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