Crime Statistics for Kennington, Ashford, Kent, March 2021

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Kennington using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so March 2021 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 363 street level crime incidents in Kennington in March 2021. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Kennington, 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	128
Anti Social Behaviour	115
Criminal Damage Arson	26
Public Order	26
Other Theft	21
Shoplifting	12
Drugs	11
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Crime	6
Possession Of Weapons	5
Burglary	4
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	363

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2021

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ashford (1.39 miles)	469
Bybrook	363
Bockhanger	363
Kennington	363
South Ashford (1.96 miles)	308
Great Chart (2.63 miles)	116
South Willesborough (2.56 miles)	105
Potters Corner (1.24 miles)	101
Tutt Hill (2.77 miles)	21
Hothfield (2.48 miles)	16

Most violent places near Kennington

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

Location	Violent Incidents
South Ashford	114
Ashford	98
Bockhanger	89
Bybrook	87
Kennington	87
Great Chart	59
South Willesborough	36
Potters Corner	18
Tutt Hill	4
Hothfield	2

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