Crime Statistics for Broad Oak, Canterbury, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 48 street level crime incidents in Broad Oak in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	12
Violent Crime	11
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Other Theft	5
Drugs	3
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Vehicle Crime	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	48

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hales Place (1.75 miles)	304
Tyler Hill (1.39 miles)	82
Fordwich (1.75 miles)	52
Broad Oak	48
Hersden (2.55 miles)	26
Calcott (0.88 miles)	22
Herne Common (2.56 miles)	13
Blean (2.55 miles)	11
Hicks Forstal (1.75 miles)	1
Bullockstone (2.48 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Broad Oak?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hales Place	125
Tyler Hill	40
Calcott	18
Fordwich	17
Broad Oak	11
Hersden	10
Herne Common	4
Hicks Forstal	1
Bullockstone	1
Blean	0

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

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 Broad Oak 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 Broad Oak compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Broad Oak and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Broad Oak is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Northgate	74
2	Wincheap	74
3	Westgate	69
4	Barton	67
5	Greenhill	67
6	St Stephen's	64
7	Boughton and Courtenay	58
8	Sturry	54
9	Blean Forest	37
10	Little Stour & Adisham	34
11	Herne & Broomfield	26

Which road in Broad Oak has the highest level of crime?

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