Crime Statistics for Richborough Port, Dover, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Richborough Port in August 2024. There were a total of 5 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour3
Violent Crime1
Other Crime1
All Crime5

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 Richborough Port. 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 Richborough Port

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Chilton (2.63 miles)88
Pegwell (2.63 miles)52
Great Stonar (1.24 miles)44
Way (2.56 miles)25
Each End (2.63 miles)24
Minster-in-Thanet (2.63 miles)23
Cop Street (2.77 miles)14
Cooper Street (2.23 miles)12
Upper Goldstone (2.55 miles)11
Richborough Port5

7.03%
of Sandwich residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Richborough Port?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Chilton31
Great Stonar25
Way21
Pegwell19
Each End18
Minster-in-Thanet12
Cop Street4
Cooper Street4
Upper Goldstone3
Richborough Port1

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

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 Richborough Port 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 Richborough Port compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Richborough Port and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Richborough Port have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Central Harbour.

#WardScore
1Central Harbour94
2Northwood92
3Eastcliff91
4Newington88
5Sir Moses Montefiore77
6Thanet Villages64
7Cliffsend and Pegwell60
8Nethercourt51
9Eastry Rural42
10Little Stour & Ashstone29
11Sandwich26

Which road in Richborough Port has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Richborough Port 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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