Crime Statistics for Tankerton, Whitstable, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Tankerton in October 2024. There were a total of 115 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Tankerton, 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	47
Shoplifting	17
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Public Order	9
Other Theft	6
Drugs	6
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Other Crime	5
Vehicle Crime	5
Burglary	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	115

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 Tankerton. 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 Tankerton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Island (1.24 miles)	127
Tankerton	115
Hampton (2.55 miles)	83
Chestfield (0.88 miles)	50
Clapham Hill (1.75 miles)	42
Greenhill (2.48 miles)	37
Yorkletts (2.63 miles)	23
Radfall (1.39 miles)	7
Bullockstone (2.55 miles)	2
Pean Hill (2.78 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Tankerton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lower Island	48
Tankerton	47
Hampton	32
Chestfield	25
Greenhill	22
Clapham Hill	15
Yorkletts	3
Radfall	3
Bullockstone	1
Pean Hill	0

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

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 Tankerton 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 Tankerton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Heron	72
2	Gorrell	71
3	Greenhill	67
4	Boughton and Courtenay	58
5	Tankerton	51
6	West Bay	47
7	Seasalter	47
8	Beltinge	35
9	Swalecliffe	31
10	Herne & Broomfield	26
11	Chestfield	25

Which road in Tankerton has the highest level of crime?

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