Crime Statistics for South Stour, Ashford, Kent, November 2020

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in South Stour using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so December 2020 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 7 street level crime incidents in South Stour in December 2020. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Violent Crime	2
Burglary	1
Other Theft	1
Public Order	1
All Crime	7

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2020

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
South Ashford (2.63 miles)	257
South Willesborough (1.39 miles)	113
Clap Hill (1.75 miles)	9
South Stour	7
Aldington Frith (1.39 miles)	6
The Forstal (0.88 miles)	5
Stonestreet Green (1.96 miles)	5
Aldington (2.24 miles)	5
Bonnington (2.24 miles)	2
Bilsington (2.56 miles)	2

9.2%
of Ashford residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near South Stour

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