Crime Statistics for Kettering, Northamptonshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kettering in September 2024. There were a total of 649 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 Kettering, 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	238
Shoplifting	139
Anti Social Behaviour	114
Public Order	35
Drugs	34
Vehicle Crime	23
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Theft	12
Burglary	10
Other Crime	9
Robbery	9
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	649

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Kettering. 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 Kettering

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kettering	604
Weekley (1.39 miles)	229
Warkton (1.39 miles)	119
Barton Seagrave (1.39 miles)	75
Great Cransley (2.77 miles)	12
Little Cransley (2.77 miles)	12
Broughton (3.1 miles)	11
Isham (3.17 miles)	8
Cranford St Andrew (3.16 miles)	5
Rushton (3.1 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Kettering?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kettering	238
Weekley	92
Warkton	51
Barton Seagrave	29
Great Cransley	5
Little Cransley	5
Broughton	5
Isham	4
Cranford St Andrew	2
Rushton	1

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

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 Kettering 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 Kettering compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	William Knibb	92
2	Northfield	91
3	Avondale Grange	82
4	All Saints	79
5	Pipers Hill	67
6	St Michael's and Wicksteed	59
7	Brambleside	41
8	Burton Latimer	39
9	St Peter's	36
10	Barton	19
11	Ise Lodge	19

Which road in Kettering has the highest level of crime?

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