Crime Statistics for Lords Wood, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 62 street level crime incidents in Lords Wood in July 2024. 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 Lords Wood, 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 Crime30
Anti Social Behaviour16
Other Theft6
Public Order3
Vehicle Crime3
Shoplifting1
Other Crime1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Theft From The Person1
All Crime62

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lords Wood. 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 Lords Wood

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chatham (1.96 miles)272
Wayfield (2.24 miles)241
Capstone (1.96 miles)77
Lords Wood62
Boxley (2.48 miles)60
Kemsley Street (1.86 miles)46
Farthing Corner (2.55 miles)45
Hempstead (1.75 miles)38
Blue Bell Hill (1.86 miles)26
Bredhurst (1.24 miles)25

9.69%
of Princes Park (Medway) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lords Wood?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chatham114
Wayfield114
Capstone38
Boxley38
Lords Wood30
Kemsley Street16
Farthing Corner16
Hempstead15
Blue Bell Hill11
Bredhurst6

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

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 Lords Wood 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 Lords Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lords Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lords Wood is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Watling67
2Burham and Wouldham63
3Rochester South and Horsted62
4Lordswood and Capstone61
5Princes Park61
6Walderslade60
7Aylesford North and Walderslade53
8Rainham South45
9Detling and Thurnham41
10Boxley31
11Hempstead and Wigmore27

Which road in Lords Wood has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: July 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0



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