Crime Statistics for Harbledown, Canterbury, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 147 street level crime incidents in Harbledown in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Harbledown, 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	49
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Theft	14
Shoplifting	14
Drugs	8
Public Order	8
Vehicle Crime	6
Burglary	5
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	147

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 Harbledown. 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 Harbledown

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Canterbury (0.88 miles)	358
Hales Place (0.88 miles)	304
Harbledown	147
Tyler Hill (1.39 miles)	91
Thanington (1.24 miles)	48
Horton (2.24 miles)	15
Rough Common (0.88 miles)	12
Blean (1.39 miles)	11
Chartham Hatch (2.24 miles)	9
Upper Harbledown (1.24 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Harbledown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Canterbury	131
Hales Place	125
Harbledown	49
Tyler Hill	37
Thanington	7
Rough Common	4
Upper Harbledown	4
Horton	3
Chartham Hatch	1
Blean	0

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

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 Harbledown 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 Harbledown compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Harbledown and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Harbledown is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Northgate	74
2	Wincheap	74
3	Westgate	69
4	Barton	67
5	St Stephen's	64
6	Boughton and Courtenay	58
7	Sturry	54
8	Downs North	46
9	Chartham & Stone Street	45
10	Blean Forest	37
11	Little Stour & Adisham	34

Which road in Harbledown has the highest level of crime?

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