Annual crime rate in Canterbury postcode area is 50.2 crimes per 1000 workday people as of April 2024. Compared to the national crime rate, Canterbury's rate is at 142%. Violent crime makes up 42.0% of all crimes reported in the postcode area. The total number of "violent crime" is 23.4k, and this number has decreased by 5% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024.
| Canterbury postcode area | crime metric | England & Wales |
|---|---|---|
| 50.2 | annual crime rate per 1k workday people | 35.4 |
| 142% | ratio of national crime rate | 100% |
| 42.0% | share of all crimes | 34.6% |
| 23.4k | crimes reported | 2.0M |
| -5.0% | annual change | -5.5% |
Violent crime rate is 50.2 crimes reported per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 9. highest crime rate out of 95 England and Wales' postcode areas.
The total number of "violent crime" is 23.4k, and this number has decreased by 5% when compared year-over-year in the period of March 2023 - February 2024. In the graph below, postcode area are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the postcode area crime rate between March 2023 - February 2024 to the postcode area crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes reported. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes reported in the postcode area.
Crime rate percentage changeNumber of crime incidents by month from January 2011 to February 2024.
Annual crime rate per 1000 workday people
Total number of crimes reported in a given calendar month (1 = January … 12 = December) in the previous five years, i.e. from 2019 till 2023.
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