Crime Statistics for Park Wood, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Park Wood in October 2024. There were a total of 93 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 Park 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 Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	36
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Other Theft	5
Public Order	5
Other Crime	5
Shoplifting	4
Burglary	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	93

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 Park 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 Park Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Shepway (1.39 miles)	191
Park Wood	93
Boughton Monchelsea (1.24 miles)	32
Loose (1.39 miles)	29
Langley Heath (1.86 miles)	16
Boughton Green (1.24 miles)	16
Langley (1.86 miles)	8
Chart Corner (0.88 miles)	6
Chart Sutton (0.88 miles)	6
Chart Hill (1.39 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Park Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Shepway	60
Park Wood	36
Boughton Monchelsea	31
Loose	12
Langley Heath	8
Boughton Green	8
Langley	2
Chart Corner	2
Chart Sutton	2
Chart Hill	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Park 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 Park 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 Park Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Park Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Park Wood is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Shepway South	73
2	Shepway North	73
3	Park Wood	67
4	Leeds	56
5	Sutton Valence and Langley	53
6	South	45
7	Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sutton	41
8	Downswood and Otham	39
9	Coxheath and Hunton	37
10	Loose	30
11	Bearsted	12

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

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