Crime Statistics for Hacklinge, Dover, Kent, 2024

Crime statistics for Hacklinge, Dover

There were a total of 4 street level crime incidents in Hacklinge in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Anti Social Behaviour2
Violent Crime1
Burglary1
All Crime4

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 Hacklinge. 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 Hacklinge

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Mill Hill (2.24 miles)109
Upper Deal (2.24 miles)109
Sholden (1.39 miles)54
Felderland (1.75 miles)20
Gore (2.55 miles)8
Buttsole (2.48 miles)7
Ham (1.24 miles)5
Hacklinge4
Great Mongeham (1.86 miles)3
Finglesham (0.88 miles)3

12.35%
of Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Hacklinge?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Mill Hill55
Upper Deal55
Sholden25
Felderland13
Gore6
Buttsole4
Ham3
Hacklinge1
Great Mongeham1
Finglesham1

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

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 Hacklinge 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 Hacklinge compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Hacklinge and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Hacklinge is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Middle Deal65
2Cliffsend and Pegwell60
3Whitfield57
4Aylesham, Eythorne & Shepherdswell49
5North Deal48
6Mill Hill48
7Eastry Rural42
8Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe32
9Walmer32
10Little Stour & Ashstone29
11Sandwich26

Which road in Hacklinge has the highest level of crime?

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