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ME8 crime rate and statistics
The ME8 postcode district, in the ME (Maidstone) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 3,198 street-crime records for ME8 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.1% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 62.9 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.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
3,198
Latest month (August 2026)
282
Year-on-year
-1.1%
Month-by-month totals
3440
236
Sep
276
Oct
264
Nov
264
Dec
221
Jan
235
Feb
244
Mar
260
Apr
283
May
289
Jun
344
Jul
282
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
236
October 2025
276
November 2025
264
December 2025
264
January 2026
221
February 2026
235
March 2026
244
April 2026
260
May 2026
283
June 2026
289
July 2026
344
August 2026
282
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.
ME8
62.9
Kent Police
95.4
3,198 records and 50,826 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 ME8 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 ME8: the north-west 1,039, the north-east 449, the south 433, the east 344, the west 341, the south-west 328, the north 176, the centre 46, the south-east 46.
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 ME8's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and ME8'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 ME8 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore ME8 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for ME8 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
4,163
2022
3,869
2023
3,593
2024
3,277
2025
3,249
2026 (part year)
2,158
Is ME8 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for ME8 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 266 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 344.
Records here changed by -1.1% on the 12 months before, against -2.4% across the Kent Police area, the main force here with 99.9% of ME8's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 35.3% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in ME8 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 50,826 Census 2021 residents of ME8.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 10.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 25.9% in the least deprived 20%.
3%1
7%2
9%3
3%4
6%5
11%6
21%7
15%8
16%9
10%10
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 ME8 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.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£330,000 (386)
2025
£350,000 (817)
2024
£337,000 (784)
2023
£332,000 (678)
2022
£337,500 (699)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£522,500 (62)
£358,000 (162)
£290,000 (139)
£180,000 (23)
2025
£465,000 (205)
£358,000 (302)
£300,000 (261)
£180,000 (49)
2024
£450,925 (168)
£350,000 (288)
£295,000 (273)
£200,000 (55)
2023
£504,995 (111)
£350,500 (262)
£299,995 (245)
£186,250 (60)
2022
£520,000 (109)
£375,000 (260)
£315,000 (287)
£187,500 (43)
Schools and colleges
18 open establishments with a postcode in ME8, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.
Highest band
Postcodes
High
6
Medium
1
Low
6
Very low
0
Broadband
Share of the 1,116 postcodes in ME8 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.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
92.7%
97.8%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
98.2%
99.4%
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