Crime Statistics for Northwood, Thanet, Kent, 2025

Is Northwood rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 420 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Northwood, 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	199
Shoplifting	41
Other Theft	28
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Drugs	22
Burglary	18
Vehicle Crime	16
Other Crime	16
Public Order	12
Possession Of Weapons	8
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	4
All Crime	420

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Dumpton (0.88 miles)	370
Northwood	359
St Lawrence (1.39 miles)	244
Bromstone (0.62 miles)	215
Isle of Thanet (0.67 miles)	160
St Peter’s (0.88 miles)	142
Reading Street (1.39 miles)	125
Broadstairs (1.24 miles)	113
Haine (1.39 miles)	59
Manston (1.96 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Northwood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Northwood	199
Dumpton	178
St Lawrence	123
Bromstone	93
Isle of Thanet	63
Reading Street	57
Broadstairs	54
St Peter’s	53
Haine	34
Manston	9

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

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 Northwood 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 Northwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Northwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Northwood is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central Harbour	94
2	Northwood	92
3	Eastcliff	91
4	Newington	88
5	Sir Moses Montefiore	77
6	Salmestone	68
7	Beacon Road	62
8	Cliffsend and Pegwell	60
9	St Peters	57
10	Nethercourt	51
11	Bradstowe	39

Which road in Northwood has the highest level of crime?

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