Crime Statistics for Cooling, Berrycourt, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 10 street level crime incidents in Cooling in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cooling, 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	5
Other Theft	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	10

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 Cooling. 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 Cooling

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lower Upnor (3.17 miles)	80
Chattenden (3.11 miles)	76
Hoo St Werburgh (3.1 miles)	54
Cooling	10
Fenn Street (2.55 miles)	6
Cooling Street (1.39 miles)	5
Lower Higham (3.1 miles)	5
Church Street (2.77 miles)	4
High Halstow (1.96 miles)	4
North Street (3.92 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Cooling?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chattenden	33
Hoo St Werburgh	30
Lower Upnor	28
Cooling	5
Cooling Street	3
Fenn Street	2
Lower Higham	2
High Halstow	2
Church Street	1
North Street	0

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

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 Cooling 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 Cooling compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Chatham Central	92
2	Gillingham North	90
3	Rochester West	84
4	Rochester East	83
5	River	75
6	Strood South	74
7	Higham	69
8	Strood North	63
9	Canvey Island West	60
10	Strood Rural	56
11	Corringham and Fobbing	35

Which road in Cooling has the highest level of crime?

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