# Bearsted Town in Maidstone, South East. Bearsted is a town in Maidstone, South East. Median sale price £461,250 in 2025. Recorded crime 34.6 per 1,000 people. About 8,386 people. Town. Code E63005464. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Maidstone](https://openindex.co.uk/maidstone) 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £461,250** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Bearsted was £461,250 in 2025. 105th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/bearsted#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 8,349** (2021). Bearsted had 8,349 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 94th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/bearsted#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Bearsted live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/bearsted#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 93.2%** (January 2026). In Bearsted, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/bearsted#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63005464) (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. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63005464) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 164 homes were sold in Bearsted in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63005464) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Bearsted. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63005464) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Bearsted had 8,349 usual residents at the census. ## How Bearsted compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Bearsted | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £461,250 | 55th most expensive | 209 towns, South East · 2025 | | Population | 8,349 | 17th least populated | 209 towns, South East · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 209 towns, South East · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 93.2% | joint 68th highest | 209 towns, South East · Jan 2026 | ## 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 Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in Bearsted | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Maidstone 005A](https://openindex.co.uk/maidstone/neighbourhood/e01024330) | 1,635 | 24.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.4% | | [Maidstone 007A](https://openindex.co.uk/maidstone/neighbourhood/e01024326) | 1,853 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% | | [Maidstone 007B](https://openindex.co.uk/maidstone/neighbourhood/e01024327) | 1,625 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% | | [Maidstone 007C](https://openindex.co.uk/maidstone/neighbourhood/e01024328) | 1,684 | 50.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.8% | | [Maidstone 007D](https://openindex.co.uk/maidstone/neighbourhood/e01024329) | 1,555 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 84.8% | ## Your MP - [Faversham and Mid Kent](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/faversham-and-mid-kent): Helen Whately (Conservative), MP since July 2024. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Council [Maidstone](https://openindex.co.uk/maidstone) ## Postcode districts covering Bearsted [ME14](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/me14), [ME15](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/me15) ## Middle areas in Bearsted [Bearsted & Downswood](https://openindex.co.uk/maidstone/bearsted-and-downswood) ## Towns near Bearsted [Maidstone](https://openindex.co.uk/town/maidstone), [Coxheath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/coxheath), [Chatham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chatham), [Larkfield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/larkfield), [Gillingham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/gillingham-medway), [Kings Hill](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kings-hill) ## 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. ## About - Type: Town - Code: E63005464 - Constituency: [Faversham and Mid Kent †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/faversham-and-mid-kent) - Council: [Maidstone †](https://openindex.co.uk/maidstone) - Region: [South East](https://openindex.co.uk/south-east) - Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england) - Area: 2.70 km² - People, mid-2024: 8,386* - Neighbourhoods: 5 - Output areas: 26 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [Maidstone](https://openindex.co.uk/town/maidstone), [Coxheath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/coxheath), [Chatham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chatham), [Larkfield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/larkfield), [Gillingham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/gillingham-medway), [Kings Hill](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kings-hill) ## Latest updates for Bearsted - August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026. - September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026. - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63005464 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/bearsted, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/bearsted#f-house-sales-median-price. Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it. Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/bearsted