Crime Statistics for Upper Harbledown, Canterbury, Kent, Nov 2020

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Upper Harbledown 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 5 street level crime incidents in Upper Harbledown in December 2020. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	3
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	5

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 Upper Harbledown. 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 Harbledown

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Canterbury (1.96 miles)	391
Hales Place (1.96 miles)	362
Harbledown (1.24 miles)	187
Thanington (1.75 miles)	46
Horton (1.86 miles)	34
Chartham Hatch (1.39 miles)	23
Rough Common (0.88 miles)	10
Blean (1.39 miles)	6
Upper Harbledown	5
Honey Hill (1.86 miles)	2

10.9%
of Canterbury residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2011 Census

Most violent places near Upper Harbledown

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