Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0Snodland records anti-social behaviour at 2.7 times the rate of a typical town its size
Taking everything together, Snodland scores C− (#59 of 87 in Kent): more crime per resident than 83% of UK towns, measured on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026. Police recorded 395 cases of anti-social behaviour in the town in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 33.4 per 1,000 against a typical 12.4. Recorded violence held steady 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 Snodland
More crime than many places its size
Of 428 UK towns of 8,000 to 16,000 people, Snodland has the 322nd lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Rhosllannerchrugog, Queensbury and Aveley, higher than Flint, Pershore and Shepton Mallet. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
48% of Snodland’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 15% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The C− for Snodland, and how it is built
A firm grade. Built on 1,902 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Snodland against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
48% of Snodland residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
15% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 48% 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.
Snodland’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Snodland runs highest on anti-social behaviour (33.4 per 1,000 against 12.4), criminal damage & arson (12 per 1,000 against 6.2) and vehicle crime (4.8 per 1,000 against 2.8). Burglary and public order sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 395 | 33.4 | 12.4 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 344 | 29.1 | 30.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 142 | 12 | 6.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 99 | 8.4 | 6.1 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 57 | 4.8 | 2.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 48 | 4.1 | 4.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 35 | 3 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 29 | 2.5 | 1.9 |
| Public order | not graded | 22 | 1.9 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 15 | 1.3 | 2.4 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 10 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
“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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Towns its size: Snodland comes 322nd of 428
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 17 | Bearsted Kent | 8,349 | 14.8 | 7.1 | 4.8 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 27 | Kings Hill Kent | 9,963 | 15.9 | 8.1 | 5.3 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 67 | Herne Kent | 14,874 | 21.7 | 7.6 | 5 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 93 | Hawkinge Kent | 8,499 | 24.1 | 7 | 5.4 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 319 | Flint Clwyd | 12,776 | 40 | 13.5 | 21.8 | C− |
| 320 | Pershore Worcestershire | 8,207 | 35.5 | 18.2 | 26.4 | C− |
| 321 | Shepton Mallet Somerset | 9,645 | 43.6 | 10.4 | 12.6 | C− |
| 322 | Snodland Kent | 11,820 | 32.7 | 21.2 | 18.1 | C− |
| 323 | Thurmaston Leicestershire | 9,509 | 34.3 | 19.7 | 16.1 | C− |
| 324 | Scawthorpe and Cusworth South Yorkshire | 13,020 | 35.2 | 19 | 19.9 | C− |
| 325 | Somercotes and Swanwick Derbyshire | 15,105 | 41.4 | 12.8 | 11.2 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 428 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | 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 Snodland, and others in Kent.
For every 1,000 residents, about 30 violent and sexual offences in the 12 months to August 2026
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 18 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 13 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 66% of Snodland’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” (70% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 6% 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. 762 crimes.
How crime in Snodland has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-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 +0% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +0% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -28% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +77% (towns its size -4%).
Where in Snodland police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Petrol stations | 261 | 76% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 99 | 34% anti-social behaviour |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 38 | 39% homes & vehicles |
police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Snodland. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Snodland’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 48 collisions with injuries inside Snodland in five years. 10 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 2 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Snodland’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Snodland’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Snodland had 16.9 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
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 Snodland’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Snodland
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snodland | 11,820 | 32.7 | 21.2 | C− |
| Halling | 2,926 | 18.8 | 11.1 | B |
| Eccles | 1,706 | 19.9 | 8.6 | B |
| Burham | 1,293 | 18.8 | 12.1 | B− |
| Larkfield | 26,147 | 25.2 | 13.9 | C+ |
| West Malling | 4,251 | 28.5 | 15.8 | C |
| Cuxton | 3,039 | 9.7 | 7.4 | A |
| Vigo Village | 2,005 | 16.3 | 13.6 | B |
Snodland records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Halling, 1.8 miles away, records 18.8 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Snodland’s 32.7.
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 Snodland 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 Snodland
Is Snodland safe?
Police recorded 32.7 violent and sexual offences and 21.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Snodland’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 17% of UK towns. Among 428 UK towns of 8,000 to 16,000 people, Snodland is 322nd from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Snodland?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft fell 28% and anti-social behaviour rose 77%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Snodland?
Violence & sexual offences: 344 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (142) and shoplifting (99), with 395 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Snodland compare with Maidstone?
Maidstone records 46.4 violent and sexual offences and 17 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Snodland’s 32.7 and 21.2, 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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