Canterbury
TownTown in Canterbury, South East.
Canterbury is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Canterbury 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 67% of people in Canterbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Canterbury compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Canterbury safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Canterbury at a rate of 166.3 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, 817 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Canterbury.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,041), anti-social behaviour (1,908) and shoplifting (1,449).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Canterbury was 162.1 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 Canterbury, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Canterbury has no single figure. Of its 30 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Canterbury
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury 011A | 1,403 | 393.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.7% |
| Canterbury 012E | 1,604 | 40.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.0% |
| Canterbury 012H | 5,447 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 3.3% |
| Canterbury 013A | 1,444 | 130.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 75.7% |
| Canterbury 013B | 1,506 | 132.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.3% |
| Canterbury 013C | 1,749 | 103.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 80.4% |
| Canterbury 013D | 1,771 | 54.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 67.1% |
| Canterbury 013E | 1,592 | 108.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 79.6% |
| Canterbury 014A | 2,085 | 287.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.6% |
| Canterbury 014B | 1,373 | 122.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Canterbury 014C | 2,868 | 200.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.1% |
| Canterbury 014D | 1,549 | 192.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 63.7% |
| Canterbury 014E | 1,853 | 242.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 74.1% |
| Canterbury 016A | 2,499 | 157.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 80.0% |
| Canterbury 016B | 1,629 | 71.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 78.9% |
| Canterbury 016C | 1,893 | 92.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 80.0% |
| Canterbury 016D | 1,481 | 136.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.0% |
| Canterbury 016E | 2,392 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.9% |
| Canterbury 017D | 1,722 | 92.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 67.4% |
| Canterbury 019A | 1,727 | 295.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.2% |
| Canterbury 019B | 1,752 | 142.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.1% |
| Canterbury 019D | 1,569 | 77.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.5% |
| Canterbury 019E | 1,372 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 70.7% |
| Canterbury 020A | 2,097 | 131.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 78.4% |
| Canterbury 020B | 1,687 | 186.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.0% |
| Canterbury 020C | 1,471 | 84.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.7% |
| Canterbury 020D | 1,295 | 508.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 36.8% |
| Canterbury 020E | 1,474 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.0% |
| Canterbury 020F | 1,453 | 1,121.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 46.8% |
| Canterbury 020G | 1,664 | 200.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 37.0% |
Your MP
- Rosie DuffieldIndependentMP for Canterbury
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 Canterbury2
Middle areas in Canterbury5
Towns near Canterbury6
Canterbury in brief
Canterbury is a town in Canterbury, South East.
About 57,678 people lived in Canterbury in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 621 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 166.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Canterbury was £300,000 in 2025.
Canterbury had 55,107 usual residents at the census.
About 67% of people in Canterbury live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Canterbury, 69.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.