Total Crime Rate
43.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
21.5 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Cross Street area has the 25th lowest crime rate of 63 local areas in Grove Green & Vinters Park , and the 200th lowest crime rate of 511 local areas in Maidstone .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Cross Street (ME14 2SL) in the last 12 months was 43.0 per 1,000 residents and was 26.2% lower than the Grove Green & Vinters Park average (58.3 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 5 offences recorded. The least common crime was Possession of weapons with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Anti-social behaviour ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 6 (≈ 21.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -73.1% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Cross Street (ME14 2SL), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Prison, where police recorded 51 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Gladstone Road (29 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Maidstone| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bluett Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Petrol Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Waterlow Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Waterlow Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Well Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Well Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Well Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bluett Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bluett Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bluett Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Boxley Gardens | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | James Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Prison | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Well Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Well Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Peel Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Perryfield Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Perryfield Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Prison | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Prison | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Prison | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Randall Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Petrol Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Well Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Quarry Square | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Quarry Square | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Thornhill Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Gladstone Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Gladstone Road | Under investigation |
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