How safe is your neighbourhood? Kent Police have put the crime statistics important to you just a click away.

The site lists figures for various types of offences, including robbery, violence against a person and anti-social behaviour, down to ward level.

In the Maidstone area, all crime has gone down by 13.7 per cent in the past year, but when the figures are examined in more detail, burglary has gone up 122.2 per cent in Allington and vehicle crime has gone up 38 per cent in Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sutton.

Crime is down across the board in Park Wood, but robbery is up 100 per cent in neighbouring Shepway North.

In the Tonbridge and Malling area, all crime is down by 18.1 per cent, but anti-social behaviour is up 15.7 per cent in Snodland East, and 20.4 per cent in West Malling and Leybourne.

In Snodland West, violence against the person is up 20 per cent and in Larkfield South, burglary has gone up 34.6 per cent.

Ch Insp Martin Cunningham, from the Kent Police Neighbourhood Policing Team said: “Once people start using it we might actually identify improvements that we can make through the feedback.”

“Real crime levels are often much lower than people think. This will help people to see that where they live is probably safer than they think.”

John Oakley, of the National Association of Estate Agents thinks the map could have an adverse effect on an already troubled house market.

He said: “They are pretty depressed anyway but all this can do is depress the market even further because you are almost ghettoising certain areas.

“It could just compound the problem of people avoiding certain areas.”

Mr Oakley is also concerned that the wards cover too large an area, meaning good neighbourhoods could become adversely affected by neighbouring streets with high crime levels.

He said: “North ward in Maidstone contains Penenden Heath and Ringlestone. It shows that all crimes have risen by 44 per cent.

“However, I think if you break down that ward even further, I would suggest a large proportion of the crime centres around the Ringlestone area, not Penenden Heath. So these crime statistics could actually disadvantage the Penenden Heath area significantly.”

Click here for the crime map and then follow the links for your area.