Total Crime Rate
622.0 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
91.5 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Cambridge Crescent area has the highest crime rate of 35 local areas in Park Wood & Mangravet , and the 7th highest crime rate of 511 local areas in Maidstone .
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 Cambridge Crescent (ME15 7NR) in the last 12 months was 622.0 per 1,000 residents and was 511.9% higher than the Park Wood & Mangravet average (101.6 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Shoplifting with 131 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Vehicle crime ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Drugs ( -33.3% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 30 (≈ 91.5 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 76.5% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -51.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Cambridge Crescent (ME15 7NR), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Parking Area, where police recorded 207 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 | Anti-social behaviour | Oxford Gardens | — |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Leicester Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Sterry Gardens | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Westmorland Close | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Westmorland 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 | 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 | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | 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 | Violence and sexual offences | Northumberland Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Northumberland Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Oxford Gardens | Action to be taken by another organisation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | 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 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Leicester Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Drawbridge Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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