Crime Statistics for St Mary in the Marsh, Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Mary in the Marsh in October 2024. There were a total of 7 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in St Mary in the Marsh, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime4
Drugs1
Other Theft1
Other Crime1
All Crime7

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 St Mary in the Marsh. 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 St Mary in the Marsh

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Littlestone-on-Sea (1.96 miles)35
St Mary’s Bay (1.24 miles)29
New Romney (1.86 miles)27
Dymchurch (2.77 miles)10
St Mary in the Marsh7
Burmarsh (3.51 miles)7
Greatstone-on-Sea (3.34 miles)4
Brenzett (3.72 miles)2
Brenzett Green (3.16 miles)2
Ivychurch (2.48 miles)1

4.45%
of New Romney residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near St Mary in the Marsh?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Littlestone-on-Sea21
New Romney18
St Mary’s Bay13
Dymchurch4
St Mary in the Marsh4
Burmarsh3
Greatstone-on-Sea1
Brenzett1
Brenzett Green1
Ivychurch0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in St Mary in the Marsh?

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 St Mary in the Marsh 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 St Mary in the Marsh compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Aylesford & East Stour56
2Walland & Denge Marsh44
3New Romney39
4Romney Marsh37
5Saxon Shore36
6Park Farm South36
7Park Farm North28
8Hythe Rural26
9Isle of Oxney26

Which road in St Mary in the Marsh has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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