Photo: Sunil060902 · CC BY-SA 3.0Ebbsfleet Valley sees more crime per resident than 96% of UK towns
Each year brought 50.5 violent and sexual offences and 27.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 1,000 residents. Violent crime here is higher than in 93% of UK towns; burglary, vehicle crime and damage, higher than in 98%. A Safety Grade of D− follows from crimes police recorded inside Ebbsfleet Valley’s built-up area over the years September 2023 to August 2026: #81 of 87 in Kent. Recorded violence fell 13% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Ebbsfleet Valley
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 13% less violent crime per resident in Ebbsfleet Valley than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 39% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Ebbsfleet Valley’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 698 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Ebbsfleet Valley against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Ebbsfleet Valley runs highest on vehicle crime (9 per 1,000 against 2), shoplifting (8 per 1,000 against 1.8) and other theft (10.4 per 1,000 against 3.2).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 135 | 45.2 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 81 | 27.1 | 8.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 31 | 10.4 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 27 | 9 | 2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 24 | 8 | 1.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 21 | 7 | 4.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 14 | 4.7 | 1.9 |
| Public order | not graded | 10 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 8 | 2.7 | 1.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 5 | 1.7 | 0.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 2 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.3 | 0 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
How Ebbsfleet Valley compares with UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
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| 30 | Ightham Kent | 2,037 | 6.1 | 7 | 2.8 | A+ |
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| 95 | Cuxton Kent | 3,039 | 9.7 | 7.4 | 2.9 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 98 | Cliffe Woods Kent | 2,689 | 11.2 | 6 | 3 | A |
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| 100 | Istead Rise Kent | 3,398 | 9.7 | 7.6 | 5.9 | A |
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| 835 | Lampeter Dyfed | 2,505 | 57.5 | 18.9 | 19.2 | D− |
| 836 | Chapel St Leonards Lincolnshire | 3,435 | 58.6 | 18 | 15.6 | D− |
| 837 | Chopwell Tyne and Wear | 2,530 | 53.8 | 23.7 | 16.9 | D− |
| 838 | Ebbsfleet Valley Kent | 2,989 | 50.5 | 27.3 | 25.4 | D− |
| 839 | Maerdy Mid Glamorgan | 2,843 | 62.4 | 15.6 | 8.8 | D− |
| 840 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | 3,859 | 60.1 | 21.5 | 13.2 | D− |
| 841 | Bowness-on-Windermere Cumbria | 2,290 | 69.6 | 16 | 14.7 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 856 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Ebbsfleet Valley, and others in Kent.
How Ebbsfleet Valley’s neighbourhoods rank in England
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Ebbsfleet Valley’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Crime in Ebbsfleet Valley per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 21 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 20 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Ebbsfleet Valley has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling twelve-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent -13% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -39% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -45% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +11% (towns its size +0%).
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 69% of Ebbsfleet Valley’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 12% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (67% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 4% of violent and 1% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 237 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Ebbsfleet Valley’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 25 collisions with injuries inside Ebbsfleet Valley in five years. 4 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Ebbsfleet Valley is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Ebbsfleet Valley’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Ebbsfleet Valley had 4.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Ebbsfleet Valley’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Ebbsfleet Valley
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ebbsfleet Valley | 2,989 | 50.5 | 27.3 | D− |
| Swanscombe | 15,462 | 36.8 | 21.3 | D |
| Bean | 1,633 | 27.6 | 16.5 | C |
| Northfleet | 29,892 | 45 | 20.6 | D |
| Stone | 6,438 | 54.7 | 28.2 | D− |
| Darenth | 2,588 | 28.6 | 19.3 | C− |
| Istead Rise | 3,398 | 9.7 | 7.6 | A |
| Tilbury | 14,187 | 55.6 | 35.9 | D− |
Ebbsfleet Valley records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Stone and Tilbury record more. Swanscombe, 1 miles away, records 36.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Ebbsfleet Valley’s 50.5.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Ebbsfleet Valley sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Ebbsfleet Valley
Is Ebbsfleet Valley safe?
Police recorded 50.5 violent and sexual offences and 27.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Ebbsfleet Valley’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: less crime per resident than 4% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Ebbsfleet Valley has less crime per resident than 4%.
Is crime going up in Ebbsfleet Valley?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 13%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 39%, shoplifting and theft fell 45% and anti-social behaviour rose 11%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Ebbsfleet Valley?
Violence & sexual offences: 135 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other theft (31) and vehicle crime (27), with 81 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Ebbsfleet Valley compare with Dartford?
Dartford records 43.5 violent and sexual offences and 20.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Ebbsfleet Valley’s 50.5 and 27.3, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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