Kempsey
WardSouth east Malvern Hills. About 5,554 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 31 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 72% of people in Kempsey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kempsey compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kempsey safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kempsey at a rate of 53.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 55.3 per 1,000 people across Malvern Hills.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 26 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kempsey.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (122), other crime (60) and anti-social behaviour (39).
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 Malvern Hills
These figures are published for the whole of Malvern Hills, not for each ward, so they describe all of Malvern Hills and not Kempsey alone. See Malvern Hills
Kempsey in brief
Kempsey had 5,045 usual residents at the census.
About 72% of people in Kempsey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kempsey, 75.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Kempsey, 2.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.