Crime Statistics for Lower *** Street, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Cox Street in August 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Lower Cox Street, 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 Crime2
Other Theft1
All Crime3

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Lower Cox Street. 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 Lower Cox Street

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Lords Wood (2.77 miles)64
Boxley (2.77 miles)55
Farthing Corner (1.86 miles)53
Thurnham (1.96 miles)40
Bredhurst (1.75 miles)26
Kemsley Street (1.39 miles)26
Friningham (1.24 miles)5
Lower Cox Street3
Stockbury (1.96 miles)2
South Green (1.86 miles)2

7.11%
of Detling and Thurnham residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Lower Cox Street?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Thurnham26
Lords Wood23
Farthing Corner22
Boxley18
Kemsley Street10
Bredhurst6
Friningham4
Lower Cox Street2
Stockbury1
South Green0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lower Cox Street?

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 Lower Cox Street 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 Lower Cox Street compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Cox Street and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Cox Street is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1High Street82
2Shepway North73
3North52
4Rainham South45
5East44
6Rainham Central42
7Detling and Thurnham41
8Downswood and Otham39
9Boxley31
10Hempstead and Wigmore27
11Bearsted12

Which road in Lower Cox Street has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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