Bearsted
TownTown in Maidstone, South East.
Bearsted is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bearsted add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Bearsted live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bearsted compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bearsted safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bearsted at a rate of 34.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 81.3 per 1,000 people across South East.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 25 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bearsted.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (112), anti-social behaviour (78) and other crime (43).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bearsted was 33.4 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Bearsted, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bearsted has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bearsted
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maidstone 005A | 1,635 | 24.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.4% |
| Maidstone 007A | 1,853 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| Maidstone 007B | 1,625 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| Maidstone 007C | 1,684 | 50.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.8% |
| Maidstone 007D | 1,555 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 84.8% |
Your MP
- Helen WhatelyConservativeMP for Faversham and Mid Kent
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Bearsted2
Middle areas in Bearsted1
Towns near Bearsted6
Bearsted in brief
Bearsted is a town in Maidstone, South East.
About 8,386 people lived in Bearsted in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £461,250 in 2025 across 164 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 34.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bearsted was £461,250 in 2025.
Bearsted had 8,349 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Bearsted live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bearsted, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.