Shepway
WardNorth west Maidstone. About 12,045 people in 4.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 68% of people in Shepway live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shepway compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Shepway safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Shepway at a rate of 100.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 85.4 per 1,000 people across Maidstone.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 141 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Shepway.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (456), anti-social behaviour (272) and shoplifting (154).
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 Maidstone
These figures are published for the whole of Maidstone, not for each ward, so they describe all of Maidstone and not Shepway alone. See Maidstone
Shepway in brief
Shepway had 11,811 usual residents at the census.
About 68% of people in Shepway live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shepway, 95.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Shepway, 4.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.