Broadstairs
TownTown in Thanet, South East.
Broadstairs is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Broadstairs 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 0% of people in Broadstairs live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Broadstairs compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Broadstairs safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Broadstairs at a rate of 83.8 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, 248 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Broadstairs.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (816), anti-social behaviour (414) and other crime (299).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Broadstairs was 93.0 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 Broadstairs, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Broadstairs has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Broadstairs
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thanet 002E | 2,197 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.0% |
| Thanet 006A | 1,636 | 102.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.1% |
| Thanet 006B | 1,372 | 59.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.9% |
| Thanet 009A | 1,677 | 46.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.7% |
| Thanet 009B | 1,416 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.9% |
| Thanet 009C | 1,359 | 15.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Thanet 009D | 1,722 | 87.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.2% |
| Thanet 009E | 1,384 | 74.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.8% |
| Thanet 010A | 1,174 | 271.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 64.7% |
| Thanet 010B | 1,084 | 183.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 71.7% |
| Thanet 010C | 1,422 | 58.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.3% |
| Thanet 010D | 1,386 | 47.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.5% |
| Thanet 010E | 1,998 | 40.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 79.2% |
| Thanet 011C | 1,228 | 102.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.1% |
| Thanet 011D | 1,437 | 18.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.0% |
| Thanet 011E | 1,253 | 127.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.8% |
| Thanet 012E | 1,380 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.1% |
Your MP
- Ms Polly BillingtonLabourMP for East Thanet
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 Broadstairs1
Middle areas in Broadstairs3
Towns near Broadstairs6
Broadstairs in brief
Broadstairs is a town in Thanet, South East.
About 25,911 people lived in Broadstairs in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £362,000 in 2025 across 505 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 83.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Broadstairs was £362,000 in 2025.
Broadstairs had 25,780 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Broadstairs live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Broadstairs, 87.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.