Crime Statistics for Sheerness, Swale, Kent, 2025

Is Sheerness rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 209 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Sheerness, 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	87
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Shoplifting	17
Public Order	14
Vehicle Crime	12
Other Crime	7
Burglary	6
Other Theft	6
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	209

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 Sheerness. 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 Sheerness

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blue Town	228
Marine Town (0.88 miles)	199
Sheerness	182
Mile Town (0.62 miles)	137
Isle of Sheppey (3.12 miles)	66
Minster-in-Sheppey (2.77 miles)	66
Halfway Houses (1.75 miles)	57
Rushenden (2.56 miles)	17
Grain (1.96 miles)	5
Lower Stoke (4.96 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Sheerness?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blue Town	113
Sheerness	87
Marine Town	86
Mile Town	59
Minster-in-Sheppey	46
Halfway Houses	25
Isle of Sheppey	24
Rushenden	7
Grain	3
Lower Stoke	0

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

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 Sheerness 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 Sheerness compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Sheerness	90
2	Sheppey East	88
3	Sheppey Central	69
4	Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow	62
5	Kemsley	62
6	Minster Cliffs	59
7	Queenborough and Halfway	57
8	Peninsula	52
9	West Shoebury	50
10	Thorpe	49

Which road in Sheerness has the highest level of crime?

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