Crime Statistics for Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 37 street level crime incidents in Sandgate in February 2024. 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 Sandgate, 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	18
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Other Theft	4
Drugs	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Public Order	1
Burglary	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	37

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 Sandgate. 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 Sandgate

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Morehall (0.62 miles)	101
Coolinge (0.62 miles)	101
Cheriton (0.88 miles)	68
Sandgate	37
Shorncliffe Camp (0.62 miles)	32
Gibraltar (2.48 miles)	27
Peene (1.75 miles)	25
Horn Street (1.24 miles)	18
Frogholt (2.23 miles)	2
Newington (2.23 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Sandgate?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Morehall	52
Coolinge	52
Cheriton	36
Sandgate	18
Gibraltar	18
Shorncliffe Camp	16
Peene	11
Horn Street	9
Frogholt	0
Newington	0

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

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 Sandgate 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 Sandgate compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Folkestone Harbour	83
2	East Folkestone	78
3	Folkestone Central	78
4	Broadmead	71
5	Cheriton	43
6	Alkham & Capel-le-Ferne	41
7	Romney Marsh	37
8	Sandgate & West Folkestone	27
9	Hythe Rural	26
10	Hythe	26
11	North Downs West	21

Which road in Sandgate has the highest level of crime?

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