Crime Statistics for Lower *** Street, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 7 street level crime incidents in Lower Cox Street in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Shoplifting.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	6
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	7

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 Lower Cox Street. 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 Lower Cox Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lords Wood (2.77 miles)	72
Boxley (2.77 miles)	69
Farthing Corner (1.86 miles)	54
Thurnham (1.96 miles)	42
Bredhurst (1.75 miles)	34
Kemsley Street (1.39 miles)	17
Lower Cox Street	7
Friningham (1.24 miles)	7
Stockbury (1.96 miles)	3
South Green (1.86 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Lower Cox Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lords Wood	29
Boxley	27
Thurnham	24
Farthing Corner	23
Kemsley Street	8
Bredhurst	6
Lower Cox Street	0
Friningham	0
Stockbury	0
South Green	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Lower Cox Street?

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 Lower Cox Street 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 Lower Cox Street compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Cox Street and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Lower Cox Street is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	High Street	82
2	Shepway North	73
3	North	52
4	Rainham South	45
5	East	44
6	Rainham Central	42
7	Detling and Thurnham	41
8	Downswood and Otham	39
9	Boxley	31
10	Hempstead and Wigmore	27
11	Bearsted	12

Which road in Lower Cox Street has the highest level of crime?

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