Crime Statistics for Tovil, Maidstone, Kent, 2024

Is Tovil rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 184 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Tovil, 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 Crime93
Vehicle Crime19
Public Order15
Criminal Damage Arson13
Anti Social Behaviour10
Burglary9
Other Theft7
Drugs6
Other Crime4
Shoplifting3
Possession Of Weapons3
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime184

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Maidstone (0.88 miles)476
Fant (0.88 miles)262
Tovil184
Shepway (1.39 miles)178
Barming Heath (1.96 miles)84
Loose (1.39 miles)35
Loose Hill (1.24 miles)32
Boughton Green (1.96 miles)11
Boughton Monchelsea (1.96 miles)11
Kettle Corner (1.96 miles)4

14.22%
of South (Maidstone) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Tovil?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Maidstone148
Fant139
Tovil93
Shepway50
Barming Heath50
Loose Hill13
Loose12
Boughton Green7
Boughton Monchelsea7
Kettle Corner1

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

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 Tovil 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 Tovil compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Tovil and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Tovil is ranked #7.

#WardScore
1High Street82
2Shepway North73
3Fant72
4North52
5Bridge52
6Heath50
7South45
8East44
9Coxheath and Hunton37
10Loose30
11Barming and Teston28

Which road in Tovil has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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