Crime Statistics for Shalmsford Street, Canterbury, Kent, Mar 2021

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Shalmsford Street using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so March 2021 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 13 street level crime incidents in Shalmsford Street in March 2021. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Drugs	2
Public Order	2
Violent Crime	2
Other Theft	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	13

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2021

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Shalmsford 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 Shalmsford Street

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Thanington (2.77 miles)	57
Chartham (0.62 miles)	22
Horton (1.39 miles)	21
Chartham Hatch (1.39 miles)	16
Shalmsford Street	13
Rhode Common (2.24 miles)	7
Upper Harbledown (2.78 miles)	6
Bagham (1.39 miles)	4
Chilham (1.96 miles)	3
Shottenden (3.1 miles)	1

Most violent places near Shalmsford Street

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Thanington	18
Chartham	18
Horton	18
Chartham Hatch	13
Shalmsford Street	8
Bagham	5
Rhode Common	3
Chilham	2
Upper Harbledown	1
Shottenden	0

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