Crime Statistics for Reading Street, Thanet, Kent, 2024

Is Reading Street rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 124 incidents. 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 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime52
Anti Social Behaviour20
Criminal Damage Arson17
Other Theft11
Public Order7
Shoplifting6
Other Crime5
Drugs4
Burglary1
Vehicle Crime1
All Crime124

Map of street level crime incidents in November 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Margate (1.96 miles)552
Dumpton (1.86 miles)372
Northwood (1.39 miles)289
Bromstone (1.24 miles)243
St Peter’s (0.62 miles)217
Isle of Thanet (1.46 miles)200
Reading Street124
Broadstairs (1.39 miles)113
Haine (2.63 miles)65
Twenties (2.48 miles)58

6.91%
of Beacon Road residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Margate301
Dumpton152
Bromstone117
Northwood113
St Peter’s96
Broadstairs83
Isle of Thanet71
Reading Street52
Twenties39
Haine37

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.

#WardScore
1Dane Valley92
2Northwood92
3Eastcliff91
4Sir Moses Montefiore77
5Salmestone68
6Cliftonville East65
7Viking65
8Beacon Road62
9St Peters57
10Kingsgate47
11Bradstowe39

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 this marker.

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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