Crime Statistics for Kettle Corner, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 9 street level crime incidents in Kettle Corner in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Kettle Corner, 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	6
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Theft	1
All Crime	9

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 Kettle Corner. 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 Kettle Corner

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fant (1.75 miles)	206
Tovil (1.96 miles)	160
Barming Heath (1.24 miles)	67
Loose Hill (1.96 miles)	29
Red Hill (1.96 miles)	14
Kettle Corner	9
Livesey Street (1.39 miles)	6
Teston (1.24 miles)	6
Wateringbury (1.86 miles)	4
Farleigh Green (0.62 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Kettle Corner?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fant	89
Tovil	63
Barming Heath	34
Loose Hill	13
Kettle Corner	6
Red Hill	5
Livesey Street	4
Teston	4
Farleigh Green	3
Wateringbury	2

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

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 Kettle Corner 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 Kettle Corner compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Fant	72
2	Heath	50
3	Marden and Yalding	48
4	South	45
5	Aylesford South	40
6	Coxheath and Hunton	37
7	Ditton	32
8	Loose	30
9	Barming and Teston	28
10	Wateringbury	28
11	Allington	11

Which road in Kettle Corner has the highest level of crime?

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