Blean Forest
WardNorth west Canterbury. About 9,870 people in 21 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Blean Forest live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Blean Forest compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Blean Forest safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Blean Forest at a rate of 38.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 107.5 per 1,000 people across Canterbury.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 37 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Blean Forest.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (109), other crime (94) and anti-social behaviour (63).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Canterbury
These figures are published for the whole of Canterbury, not for each ward, so they describe all of Canterbury and not Blean Forest alone. See Canterbury
Blean Forest in brief
Blean Forest had 10,126 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Blean Forest live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Blean Forest, 26.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Blean Forest, 0.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.