Crime Statistics for Lower Rainham, Gillingham, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 140 street level crime incidents in Lower Rainham 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 Rainham, 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	69
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Public Order	10
Other Theft	10
Shoplifting	7
Other Crime	5
Vehicle Crime	2
Robbery	1
Drugs	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	140

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 Rainham. 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 Rainham

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Grange (1.39 miles)	252
Lower Rainham	140
Rainham (1.24 miles)	128
Lower Twydall (0.62 miles)	127
Moor Street (1.39 miles)	111
Twydall (1.39 miles)	107
Capstone (2.24 miles)	76
Hempstead (2.24 miles)	51
Upchurch (1.86 miles)	17
Breach (2.24 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Lower Rainham?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Grange	132
Lower Rainham	69
Lower Twydall	61
Rainham	56
Moor Street	53
Twydall	40
Capstone	30
Hempstead	22
Upchurch	9
Breach	6

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

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 Rainham 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 Rainham compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Gillingham South	90
2	Luton and Wayfield	89
3	Twydall	68
4	Watling	67
5	Rainham North	64
6	Hartlip, Newington and Upchurch	62
7	Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow	62
8	Lordswood and Capstone	61
9	Rainham South	45
10	Rainham Central	42
11	Hempstead and Wigmore	27

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

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