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Thanet crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 16,482 street-crime records for the Thanet council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.9% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 117.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 95.4 for Kent Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Thanet council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Thanet: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
16,482
Latest month (August 2026)
1,683
Year-on-year
-3.9%
Month-by-month totals
1,6830
1.2k
Sep
1.3k
Oct
1.2k
Nov
1.3k
Dec
1.3k
Jan
1.2k
Feb
1.5k
Mar
1.3k
Apr
1.6k
May
1.4k
Jun
1.5k
Jul
1.7k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
1,186
October 2025
1,275
November 2025
1,231
December 2025
1,322
January 2026
1,304
February 2026
1,185
March 2026
1,472
April 2026
1,328
May 2026
1,579
June 2026
1,386
July 2026
1,531
August 2026
1,683
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
Thanet council area
117.3
Kent Police
95.4
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
16,482 records and 140,546 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Which parts of Thanet have the lowest and highest published crime rates?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. These are published street-crime records per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, as each area's own page and the crime rate rankings gave them on 30 October 2026. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit and few live, such as a town centre. Areas with fewer than 5,000 residents, and areas whose own page withholds a rate, are not ranked. How rankings are built.
Postcode sectors
Of the 14 postcode sectors mostly in Thanet with a ranked rate, CT7 9 has the lowest, 53.8 per 1,000 residents, and CT9 1 the highest, 361.6, September 2025 to August 2026.
Of the 6 postcode districts mostly in Thanet with a ranked rate, CT7 has the lowest, 58.1 per 1,000 residents, and CT9 the highest, 148.5, September 2025 to August 2026.
Share of the Thanet council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Records by part of the Thanet council area: the north-east 6,322, the east 5,619, the south-east 2,657, the north 869, the north-west 609, the south-west 190, the west 127, the centre 70, the south 39.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Thanet council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Thanet council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Thanet council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Thanet council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Thanet council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000114), which can differ from the place people call Thanet.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Thanet. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.