Crime Statistics for Reading Street, Thanet, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 149 street level crime incidents in Reading Street in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Reading Street, 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	58
Shoplifting	17
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Drugs	14
Vehicle Crime	9
Other Theft	8
Public Order	7
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Burglary	6
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	149

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 Reading 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 Reading Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Margate (1.96 miles)	327
Dumpton (1.86 miles)	320
Northwood (1.39 miles)	263
Bromstone (1.24 miles)	233
Isle of Thanet (1.46 miles)	190
St Peter’s (0.62 miles)	180
Reading Street	149
Broadstairs (1.39 miles)	98
Twenties (2.48 miles)	76
Haine (2.63 miles)	73

Where are the most violent places near Reading Street?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Margate	168
Dumpton	156
Northwood	117
Bromstone	93
Isle of Thanet	78
St Peter’s	70
Reading Street	58
Twenties	47
Broadstairs	45
Haine	31

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading Street compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Reading Street and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Reading Street is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Dane Valley	92
2	Northwood	92
3	Eastcliff	91
4	Sir Moses Montefiore	77
5	Salmestone	68
6	Cliftonville East	65
7	Viking	65
8	Beacon Road	62
9	St Peters	57
10	Kingsgate	47
11	Bradstowe	39

Which road in Reading Street has the highest level of crime?

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