Crime Statistics for Rough Common, Canterbury, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 12 street level crime incidents in Rough Common in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Theft.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rough Common, 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	4
Other Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	12

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 Rough Common. 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 Rough Common

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Canterbury (1.75 miles)	358
Hales Place (1.24 miles)	304
Harbledown (0.88 miles)	147
Tyler Hill (1.39 miles)	91
Thanington (1.96 miles)	48
Rough Common	12
Blean (0.62 miles)	11
Chartham Hatch (2.24 miles)	9
Upper Harbledown (0.88 miles)	7
Honey Hill (1.39 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Rough Common?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Canterbury	131
Hales Place	125
Harbledown	49
Tyler Hill	37
Thanington	7
Rough Common	4
Upper Harbledown	4
Chartham Hatch	1
Blean	0
Honey Hill	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Rough Common?

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 Rough Common 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 Rough Common compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rough Common and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Rough Common is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Northgate	74
2	Wincheap	74
3	Westgate	69
4	Barton	67
5	St Stephen's	64
6	Boughton and Courtenay	58
7	Sturry	54
8	Seasalter	47
9	Downs North	46
10	Chartham & Stone Street	45
11	Blean Forest	37

Which road in Rough Common has the highest level of crime?

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