Medway council area. Every figure carries its own date.
What the recorded figures show, and what they cannot tell us.
Recorded crime and population
A larger population can mean more recorded offences even when the number of offences per resident falls. Read the total and the rate together.
A checked recorded-crime total and matching population rate for this exact council area are not available in this collection yet. The local mapped records below remain a separate measure.
Can we test the population theory over 30 years?
Only where the offence definitions, recording practices and area boundaries are comparable. Changes in reporting, police recording and the types of crime matter too. We do not join incompatible series or invent missing years.
No observation has yet passed the count, geography and population checks for display.
2002/03: Series starts after April 2002 recording-standard introduction; not comparable to pre-2002 records.
2013/14: Offence grouping revision; source back-series retained. Recording practice changes also affect comparisons.
2017/18: Burglary classification changed; broad total retained but detailed groups need review.
2023/24: Burglary subcategories and recording-rule changes require interpretation review.
A comparable 30-year crime-and-population trend has not been established for this area.
For example, if offences rose by 10% while population rose by 20%, offences per resident would fall by about 8%. This is an illustration, not a finding about this area.
People commuting or visiting can also affect offences recorded in a place. The resident population is a useful common denominator, but does not count everyone present.
What could help? Follow the types and locations of repeated problems, check residents’ experiences, and assess the response. Area population totals do not identify who commits offences.
Police-recorded locations for Medway council area. Locations are approximate; these are not all crimes or a measure of personal risk.
23,720 mapped crimes
September 2025 to August 2026. Compared with 25,904 in the previous 12 months. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately.
Mapped crime over time
September 2024 to August 2026
Medway council area · mapped crimes
Reviewed figures: September 2024 to August 2026. This reviewed record covers fewer than 30 years, so the chart opens on all of it.
Shown on this chart: 2,097 mapped crimes in September 2024; 2,126 mapped crimes in August 2026. These are recorded counts; check the coverage notes before comparing periods.
1.8k2.1k2.4k
September 2024August 2026
The line joins consecutive published observations.
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Monthly crime and anti-social behaviour
Recorded locations by month · Medway
Month
Mapped crime
Anti-social behaviour
September 2024
2,097
374
October 2024
2,150
374
November 2024
2,079
302
December 2024
2,032
274
January 2025
2,185
247
February 2025
1,978
296
March 2025
2,275
436
April 2025
2,197
503
May 2025
2,342
541
June 2025
2,212
523
July 2025
2,218
674
August 2025
2,139
587
September 2025
1,866
428
October 2025
1,948
451
November 2025
1,829
439
December 2025
1,989
380
January 2026
1,910
408
February 2026
1,814
411
March 2026
2,164
533
April 2026
2,012
541
May 2026
2,005
603
June 2026
1,912
561
July 2026
2,145
775
August 2026
2,126
710
Crime categories in the latest complete year
September 2025 to August 2026 · Medway
Category
Mapped crimes
violent crime
10,939
criminal damage arson
2,522
shoplifting
2,162
other theft
2,043
public order
1,315
vehicle crime
1,219
drugs
983
other crime
885
burglary
671
possession of weapons
333
robbery
304
bicycle theft
211
theft from the person
133
What these numbers include
Approximate published locations, not every crime or personal risk.
Anti-social behaviour is separate. Transport police and unusable locations excluded.
An empty ward count means no mapped rows in the complete required force files; it does not prove that no crime occurred.
These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.
Missing ward-months invalidate totals and changes. Busy centres attract visitors, so residential population is not a measure of the number of people exposed.
