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

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 April 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 458 street level crime incidents in Penenden Heath in April 2020. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	182
Violent Crime	138
Public Order	34
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Other Theft	17
Burglary	14
Shoplifting	11
Vehicle Crime	11
Other Crime	6
Drugs	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Theft From The Person	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	458

Map of street level crime incidents in April 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)	571
Penenden Heath	458
Harbourland (0.62 miles)	328
Fant (1.75 miles)	261
Weavering Street (1.39 miles)	135
Abbey Gate (0.88 miles)	133
Allington (1.24 miles)	127
Sandling (0.88 miles)	98
Boxley (0.88 miles)	96
Ware Street (1.96 miles)	79

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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.