Crime Statistics for Shepway, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Shepway in October 2024. There were a total of 191 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 Shepway, 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	60
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Shoplifting	21
Other Theft	13
Other Crime	12
Public Order	8
Vehicle Crime	7
Burglary	7
Drugs	4
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	191

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 Shepway. 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 Shepway

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maidstone (1.39 miles)	520
Tovil (1.39 miles)	246
Shepway	191
Green Hill (1.39 miles)	99
Park Wood (1.39 miles)	93
Bearsted (1.75 miles)	90
Loose Hill (1.39 miles)	40
Boughton Monchelsea (1.39 miles)	32
Loose (0.88 miles)	29
Boughton Green (1.39 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Shepway?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maidstone	197
Tovil	111
Bearsted	83
Shepway	60
Park Wood	36
Green Hill	34
Boughton Monchelsea	31
Loose Hill	17
Loose	12
Boughton Green	8

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

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 Shepway 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 Shepway compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	High Street	82
2	Shepway South	73
3	Shepway North	73
4	Fant	72
5	Park Wood	67
6	Bridge	52
7	South	45
8	East	44
9	Downswood and Otham	39
10	Loose	30
11	Bearsted	12

Which road in Shepway has the highest level of crime?

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