Crime Statistics for Upper Deal, Dover, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Upper Deal in August 2024. There were a total of 146 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 Upper Deal, 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	70
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Vehicle Crime	14
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Other Theft	7
Public Order	6
Other Crime	5
Shoplifting	2
Robbery	2
Burglary	2
Drugs	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	146

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 Upper Deal. 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 Upper Deal

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mill Hill	113
Upper Deal	87
Walmer (0.88 miles)	64
Sholden (0.88 miles)	51
Felderland (3.97 miles)	7
Martin (3.1 miles)	5
Ham (3.1 miles)	4
Great Mongeham (1.24 miles)	3
Hacklinge (2.24 miles)	2
Finglesham (2.23 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Upper Deal?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Upper Deal	70
Mill Hill	46
Sholden	37
Walmer	29
Felderland	6
Martin	1
Great Mongeham	1
Hacklinge	1
Finglesham	1
Ham	0

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

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 Upper Deal 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 Upper Deal compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Upper Deal and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Upper Deal is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Buckland	87
2	Middle Deal	65
3	Whitfield	57
4	Aylesham, Eythorne & Shepherdswell	49
5	North Deal	48
6	Mill Hill	48
7	Eastry Rural	42
8	Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe	32
9	Walmer	32
10	Little Stour & Ashstone	29
11	Sandwich	26

Which road in Upper Deal has the highest level of crime?

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