Crime Statistics for Birchington, Thanet, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 50 street level crime incidents in Birchington in March 2024. 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 Birchington, 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	23
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Other Theft	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Shoplifting	3
Drugs	3
Burglary	1
Robbery	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	50

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Margate (3.16 miles)	351
Garlinge (1.86 miles)	112
Twenties (2.48 miles)	67
Birchington	50
Way (2.78 miles)	25
Minster-in-Thanet (3.1 miles)	20
Manston (3.1 miles)	17
Acol (1.24 miles)	16
St Nicholas-at-Wade (3.1 miles)	5
Gore Street (3.1 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Birchington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Margate	156
Garlinge	59
Twenties	37
Birchington	23
Way	14
Manston	13
Minster-in-Thanet	11
Acol	7
St Nicholas-at-Wade	3
Gore Street	3

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

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 Birchington 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 Birchington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Margate Central	96
2	Cliftonville West	95
3	Dane Valley	92
4	Northwood	92
5	Garlinge	80
6	Westbrook	72
7	Salmestone	68
8	Thanet Villages	64
9	Westgate-on-Sea	48
10	Birchington South	42
11	Birchington North	24

Which road in Birchington has the highest level of crime?

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