Crime Statistics for Great Stour, Canterbury, Kent, 2024

Crime statistics for Great Stour, Canterbury

There were a total of 5 street level crime incidents in Great Stour in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Great Stour, 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 Crime2
Burglary2
Drugs1
All Crime5

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 Great Stour. 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 Great Stour

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Stour (0.86 miles)5
Wall End (0.63 miles)5
Great Stour5
Hollow Street (1.45 miles)4
Chislet (1.45 miles)4
Chitty (1.45 miles)4
Gore Street (2.31 miles)2
Shelvingford (2.31 miles)1
Boyden Gate (1.84 miles)1
Chislet Forstal (2 miles)0

4.45%
of Reculver residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Great Stour?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Stour2
Wall End2
Great Stour2
Hollow Street1
Chislet1
Chitty1
Gore Street1
Shelvingford1
Boyden Gate1
Chislet Forstal0

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

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 Great Stour 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 Great Stour compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Great Stour and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Great Stour is ranked #6.

#WardScore
1Heron72
2Barton67
3Greenhill67
4St Stephen's64
5Sturry54
6Reculver43
7Birchington South42
8Blean Forest37
9Beltinge35
10Little Stour & Adisham34
11Herne & Broomfield26

Which road in Great Stour has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
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