Total Crime Rate
77.5 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
41.3 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Worcester Road area has the 14th lowest crime rate of 35 local areas in Park Wood & Mangravet , and the 165th highest 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 Worcester Road (ME15 7LU) in the last 12 months was 77.5 per 1,000 residents and was 23.7% lower than the Park Wood & Mangravet average (101.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 14 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 200.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 16 (≈ 41.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 60.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -67.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Worcester Road (ME15 7LU), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Parking Area, where police recorded 191 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Oxford Gardens (42 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Maidstone| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Sterry Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Oxford Gardens | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Gloucester Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Cumberland Avenue | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Drawbridge Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Drawbridge Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Drawbridge Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Drawbridge Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Northumberland Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Northumberland Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Cambridge Crescent | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oxford Gardens | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Gloucester Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Willington Green | Under investigation |
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