Total Crime Rate
254.2 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
86.6 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Victoria Road area has the 6th highest crime rate of 26 local areas in Margate Central , and the 48th highest crime rate of 449 local areas in Thanet .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Victoria Road (CT9 1LN) in the last 12 months was 254.2 per 1,000 residents and was 34.7% lower than the Margate Central average (389.5 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 30 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 50.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Vehicle crime ( -33.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 31 (≈ 86.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -16.2% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -66.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Victoria Road (CT9 1LN), the main crime hotspot is near Mill Lane. Police recorded 105 crimes here, including 48 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Margate Central| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Churchfield Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grosvenor Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Alexandra Terrace | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Grosvenor Gardens | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grosvenor Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grosvenor Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grosvenor Gardens | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grosvenor Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Mill Lane | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Buckingham Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Eaton Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Eaton Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Eaton Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Eaton Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Churchfield Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Eaton Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Mill Lane | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Mill Lane | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Eaton Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mill Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cowper Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Cowper Road | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Bicycle theft | Oxford Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mill Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mill Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Church Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Mill Lane | — |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Mill Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Mill Lane | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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