Crime Statistics for Lower Higham, Gravesham, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 5 street level crime incidents in Lower Higham 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 Lower Higham, 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	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	5

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 Higham. 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 Higham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Frindsbury (3.1 miles)	319
Lower Upnor (3.34 miles)	80
Chattenden (2.77 miles)	76
Higham (1.24 miles)	23
Cooling (3.1 miles)	10
Shorne (1.75 miles)	9
Shorne Ridgeway (2.24 miles)	7
Cooling Street (1.96 miles)	5
Lower Higham	5
Church Street (0.62 miles)	4

Where are the most violent places near Lower Higham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Frindsbury	147
Chattenden	33
Lower Upnor	28
Higham	11
Cooling	5
Cooling Street	3
Shorne	2
Lower Higham	2
Shorne Ridgeway	1
Church Street	1

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

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 Higham 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 Higham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Westcourt	96
2	Singlewell	86
3	Rochester West	84
4	Chalk	83
5	Rochester East	83
6	Whitehill	83
7	Strood South	74
8	Higham	69
9	Strood North	63
10	Strood Rural	56
11	Riverview	47

Which road in Lower Higham has the highest level of crime?

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