Crime Statistics for Sholden, Dover, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 54 street level crime incidents in Sholden 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 Sholden, 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	34
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Shoplifting	3
Public Order	2
Other Crime	2
Other Theft	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	54

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 Sholden. 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 Sholden

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mill Hill (0.88 miles)	85
Upper Deal (0.88 miles)	85
Sholden	54
Walmer (1.75 miles)	41
Felderland (3.1 miles)	13
Buttsole (3.34 miles)	5
Ham (2.24 miles)	5
Great Mongeham (0.88 miles)	4
Hacklinge (1.39 miles)	1
Finglesham (1.39 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Sholden?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mill Hill	48
Upper Deal	48
Sholden	34
Walmer	20
Felderland	9
Buttsole	4
Ham	4
Great Mongeham	0
Hacklinge	0
Finglesham	0

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

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 Sholden 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 Sholden compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Buckland	87
2	Middle Deal	65
3	Whitfield	57
4	Aylesham, Eythorne & Shepherdswell	49
5	North Deal	48
6	Mill Hill	48
7	Eastry Rural	42
8	Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe	32
9	Walmer	32
10	Little Stour & Ashstone	29
11	Sandwich	26

Which road in Sholden has the highest level of crime?

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