Crime Statistics for Penenden Heath, Maidstone, Kent, June 2020

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The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Penenden Heath using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so July 2020 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 554 street level crime incidents in Penenden Heath in July 2020. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Penenden Heath, 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	222
Anti Social Behaviour	108
Criminal Damage Arson	42
Public Order	40
Shoplifting	39
Other Crime	20
Vehicle Crime	17
Drugs	15
Burglary	13
Other Theft	13
Theft From The Person	9
Bicycle Theft	7
Possession Of Weapons	7
Robbery	2
All Crime	554

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2020

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Penenden Heath. 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 Penenden Heath

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maidstone (1.24 miles)	704
Penenden Heath	554
Harbourland (0.62 miles)	337
Fant (1.75 miles)	272
Allington (1.24 miles)	142
Abbey Gate (0.88 miles)	91
Sandling (0.88 miles)	87
Weavering Street (1.39 miles)	81
Boxley (0.88 miles)	69
Ware Street (1.96 miles)	45

9.3%
of Maidstone residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near Penenden Heath

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