Crime Statistics for Upper Bush, Upper Halling, Kent, 2024

There were a total of 6 street level crime incidents in Upper Bush in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Burglary, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Burglary	2
Violent Crime	2
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	6

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 Upper Bush. 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 Upper Bush

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Borstal (2.48 miles)	105
Halling (1.39 miles)	28
Camer (2.55 miles)	21
Upper Halling (1.24 miles)	14
Foxendown (2.55 miles)	14
Cuxton (0.62 miles)	14
Cobham (1.75 miles)	8
Shorne Ridgeway (2.48 miles)	7
Coomb Hill (2.23 miles)	6
Upper Bush	6

Where are the most violent places near Upper Bush?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Borstal	55
Camer	10
Halling	7
Upper Halling	6
Foxendown	6
Cuxton	5
Cobham	2
Upper Bush	2
Shorne Ridgeway	1
Coomb Hill	1

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

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 Upper Bush 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 Upper Bush compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Rochester East	83
2	Strood South	74
3	Higham	69
4	Snodland East and Ham Hill	66
5	Shorne, Cobham and Luddesdown	64
6	Burham and Wouldham	63
7	Strood North	63
8	Cuxton and Halling	51
9	Meopham North	49
10	Meopham South and Vigo	49
11	Snodland West and Holborough Lakes	41

Which road in Upper Bush has the highest level of crime?

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