Crime Statistics for Lords Wood, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 72 street level crime incidents in Lords Wood 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 Lords Wood, 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	29
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Vehicle Crime	7
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	3
Burglary	1
Shoplifting	1
Drugs	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	72

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 Lords Wood. 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 Lords Wood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Chatham (1.96 miles)	214
Wayfield (2.24 miles)	207
Capstone (1.96 miles)	76
Lords Wood	72
Boxley (2.48 miles)	69
Farthing Corner (2.55 miles)	54
Hempstead (1.75 miles)	51
Bredhurst (1.24 miles)	34
Blue Bell Hill (1.86 miles)	22
Kemsley Street (1.86 miles)	17

Where are the most violent places near Lords Wood?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Chatham	92
Wayfield	90
Capstone	30
Lords Wood	29
Boxley	27
Farthing Corner	23
Hempstead	22
Kemsley Street	8
Bredhurst	6
Blue Bell Hill	6

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

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 Lords Wood 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 Lords Wood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lords Wood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Lords Wood is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Watling	67
2	Burham and Wouldham	63
3	Rochester South and Horsted	62
4	Lordswood and Capstone	61
5	Princes Park	61
6	Walderslade	60
7	Aylesford North and Walderslade	53
8	Rainham South	45
9	Detling and Thurnham	41
10	Boxley	31
11	Hempstead and Wigmore	27

Which road in Lords Wood has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Lords Wood with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Clover Bank View.