Crime Statistics for Gillingham, Chatham, Kent, 2024

Crime statistics for Gillingham, Chatham

There were a total of 792 street level crime incidents in Gillingham in January 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 Gillingham, 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 Crime382
Anti Social Behaviour94
Criminal Damage Arson69
Other Theft44
Shoplifting43
Vehicle Crime40
Public Order40
Burglary22
Drugs17
Other Crime16
Robbery12
Possession Of Weapons8
Theft From The Person3
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime792

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Gillingham. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Gillingham

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Brompton (0.88 miles)945
Gillingham792
Frindsbury (2.24 miles)337
Grange (1.39 miles)291
Wayfield (1.75 miles)239
Chatham (1.39 miles)197
Lower Twydall (1.86 miles)146
Twydall (1.39 miles)117
Capstone (1.39 miles)68
Hempstead (2.24 miles)53

25.63%
of Gillingham South residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Gillingham?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Brompton434
Gillingham382
Frindsbury144
Grange141
Wayfield100
Chatham72
Lower Twydall56
Twydall43
Capstone33
Hempstead14

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

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 Gillingham 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 Gillingham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Chatham Central92
2Gillingham North90
3Gillingham South90
4Luton and Wayfield89
5Rochester West84
6River75
7Twydall68
8Watling67
9Rochester South and Horsted62
10Lordswood and Capstone61
11Hempstead and Wigmore27

Which road in Gillingham has the highest level of crime?

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

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