Dartford has a medium crime rating, placing it 12th out of 25 neighboring boroughs in terms of crime rates. The area reported 13,749 incidents in 2023, with a population of 116,753, leading to a crime rate of 117.76 incidents per 1,000 people. Notably, this rate reflects a 4.02% decrease from the previous year.
The most prevalent crimes in Dartford include Violence and sexual offences (34.8%), Shoplifting (12.1%), and Anti-social behaviour (11.8%), with the least common being Robbery (0.8%), Theft from the person (0.7%), and Bicycle theft (0.5%).
Dartford is divided into 20 wards, with Town (Dartford) (377.4), Stone Castle (290.9), and Stone House (151.9) experiencing the highest crime rates. Conversely, the safest wards are Wilmington, Sutton-at-Hone & Hawley (57.1), Joyden’s Wood (54.8), and Heath (Dartford) (48.9).
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In Dartford, there was an initial rise in Anti-social behaviour by 7.46% in 2020 and in Shoplifting by 3.14% in 2022 and 1.61% in 2023. Violence and sexual offences increased by 2.62% in 2021. However, there were decreases in Anti-social behaviour in the subsequent years, a drop in Burglary and Other theft in 2020, a decrease in Public order offenses in 2022, and a decline in Vehicle crime in 2020, with Violence and sexual offences experiencing a significant reduction in 2023.