Meopham is a safe area, and its crime rate is well under half the borough's. Crime here runs at roughly four in every hundred residents a year. The borough as a whole runs at about ten. Burglary and car crime make up a bigger share than they do nationally, but the totals behind those shares are small. Most of what goes through Meopham is traffic on the main road.
Kent Police recorded 249 crimes in Meopham in the year to May 2026. That's a published rate of about 42 per 1,000 residents, roughly 58% below the average for Gravesham.
Gravesham's own rate over the same year was about 98 crimes per 1,000 residents. Put the two numbers side by side and Meopham's crime clearly happens somewhere else in the borough.
The village averages about 1,380 people per square kilometre across its neighbourhoods. Unemployment is about 2%, and about 2% of households are overcrowded. Those figures describe the place, and nothing in them shows they cause the crime rate. Together they describe a spread-out village where people mostly have jobs and room to live.
The total is small, so a few incidents can move any category's share by several points. Read the mix below as a description of one year, and don't expect the same next year. Violence and sexual offences made up about 37% of crimes, close to the 35% national share. That category covers a lot of ground, down to common assault where nobody was hurt, and it's the biggest category almost everywhere. Anti-social behaviour was about 17%, against 16% nationally. Vehicle crime was about 8% against 5%, criminal damage and arson about 8% against 7%, and other theft about 8% against 7%. Burglary is where Meopham stands out most, at about 8% of local crime against about 4% nationally. The base is small, but if a house on the long stretches between neighbours appeals to you, look at the street-level crime map for that end of the village, and don't rely on the village average.
What happens after a crime is reported is decided across the whole Kent force, not in the village. Kent Police charges a suspect in about 16% of cases, against about 12% across England and Wales, which places it sixth of 42 forces over the same year. It closes about 36% of cases without identifying a suspect. That tells you how the force follows up crime, not how much crime happens here, and Meopham shares the figure with every other town in Kent.
Safety is one of Meopham's real strengths. Crime here comes in well under half the borough's rate, and for most residents the biggest daily risk is pulling out onto the main road.