Crime Statistics for Sheerness, Swale, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sheerness in July 2024. There were a total of 205 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 Sheerness, 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 Crime86
Anti Social Behaviour49
Criminal Damage Arson21
Public Order13
Shoplifting13
Burglary4
Other Crime4
Vehicle Crime3
Other Theft3
Robbery3
Possession Of Weapons2
Drugs2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime205

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blue Town417
Marine Town (0.88 miles)252
Sheerness205
Mile Town (0.62 miles)203
Minster-in-Sheppey (2.77 miles)139
Isle of Sheppey (3.12 miles)86
Halfway Houses (1.75 miles)61
Rushenden (2.56 miles)24
Lower Stoke (4.96 miles)10
Grain (1.96 miles)5

8.16%
of Sheerness residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sheerness?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Blue Town174
Marine Town103
Sheerness86
Mile Town84
Minster-in-Sheppey68
Isle of Sheppey26
Halfway Houses24
Lower Stoke5
Rushenden4
Grain4

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

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 Sheerness 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 Sheerness compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sheerness and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Sheerness have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is .

#WardScore
1Sheerness90
2Sheppey East88
3Sheppey Central69
4Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow62
5Kemsley62
6Minster Cliffs59
7Queenborough and Halfway57
8Peninsula52
9West Shoebury50
10Thorpe49

Which road in Sheerness has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: July 2024
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