Crime Statistics for Bekesbourne Hill, Canterbury, Kent, 2024

Crime statistics for Bekesbourne Hill, Canterbury

There were no crime incidents reported to the Police in Bekesbourne Hill in January 2024.

Crime CategoryIncidents
All Crime0

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 Bekesbourne Hill. 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.

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Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bekesbourne Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Canterbury (2.55 miles)412
Thanington (3.1 miles)54
Fordwich (1.86 miles)48
Ickham (2.77 miles)8
Littlebourne (1.39 miles)5
Bekesbourne (0.88 miles)3
Bridge (1.24 miles)3
Patrixbourne (0.62 miles)3
Ileden (2.78 miles)2
Bekesbourne Hill0

8.77%
of Little Stour & Adisham residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Bekesbourne Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Canterbury141
Fordwich21
Thanington18
Littlebourne5
Ickham4
Bekesbourne1
Bridge1
Patrixbourne1
Ileden0
Bekesbourne Hill0

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

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 Bekesbourne Hill 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 Bekesbourne Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Northgate74
2Wincheap74
3Westgate69
4Barton67
5St Stephen's64
6Sturry54
7Chartham & Stone Street45
8Reculver43
9Blean Forest37
10Nailbourne35
11Little Stour & Adisham34

Which road in Bekesbourne Hill has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bekesbourne Hill 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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