ME5 crime rate and statistics

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Month-by-month totals

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.

3,889 records and 52,163 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.

Top crime categories

Share of ME5 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

• Violence and sexual offences37.2%

  1,447 records · England and Wales 35.5%

• Anti-social behaviour26.8%

  1,044 records · England and Wales 15.7%

• Criminal damage and arson8.5%

  330 records · England and Wales 7.0%

• Other theft6.6%

  256 records · England and Wales 6.7%

• Vehicle crime4.3%

  166 records · England and Wales 5.1%

• Shoplifting3.7%

  142 records · England and Wales 8.7%

• Other crime3.0%

  117 records · England and Wales 2.2%

• Public order2.9%

  113 records · England and Wales 6.9%

Where records cluster in ME5

Records by part of ME5: the north-east 1,928, the south-east 770, the north 703, the south 489, the east 308, the south-west 248, the west 104, the centre 99, the north-west 28.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of ME5's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and ME5'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 ME5 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore ME5 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for ME5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Police forces

ME5's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Kent Police (99.7%), Metropolitan Police (0.2%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.0%) and Norfolk Constabulary (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in ME5

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Council areas

ME5 is mostly in the Medway council area, and also covers parts of the Tonbridge and Malling council area and the Maidstone council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 52,163 Census 2021 residents of ME5.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 13.4% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 14.1% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About ME5 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

Schools and colleges

19 open establishments with a postcode in ME5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Broadband

Share of the 994 postcodes in ME5 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

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CrimeMapsUK. ME5 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/me5/