Chatham
TownTown in Medway, South East.
Chatham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chatham 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 Chatham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chatham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chatham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chatham at a rate of 125.6 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, 975 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chatham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,545), anti-social behaviour (2,241) and other crime (1,549).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chatham was 127.4 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 Chatham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chatham has no single figure. Of its 48 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 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 Chatham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maidstone 001A | 1,315 | 49.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.5% |
| Maidstone 001F | 2,313 | 19.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Medway 015A | 1,510 | 117.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Medway 015B | 1,697 | 343.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.6% |
| Medway 015C | 1,868 | 137.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.1% |
| Medway 015E | 1,763 | 391.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 41.1% |
| Medway 015G | 1,497 | 972.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 45.2% |
| Medway 020A | 1,695 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Medway 020B | 1,638 | 212.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.4% |
| Medway 020C | 1,709 | 131.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Medway 020D | 1,762 | 191.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| Medway 021A | 1,287 | 182.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.7% |
| Medway 021B | 1,661 | 87.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Medway 021C | 1,472 | 106.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| Medway 021D | 1,797 | 230.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Medway 022A | 1,961 | 140.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.5% |
| Medway 022B | 1,799 | 85.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Medway 022C | 2,053 | 97.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Medway 022D | 1,617 | 176.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.1% |
| Medway 027A | 1,625 | 153.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.6% |
| Medway 027B | 1,375 | 40.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.9% |
| Medway 027C | 1,693 | 200.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.9% |
| Medway 027D | 1,631 | 83.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Medway 027E | 1,766 | 92.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.7% |
| Medway 031A | 1,435 | 78.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.1% |
| Medway 031B | 1,296 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.6% |
| Medway 031C | 1,300 | 40.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Medway 031D | 1,300 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.4% |
| Medway 031E | 1,477 | 75.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
| Medway 033A | 1,484 | 173.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.4% |
| Medway 033B | 2,350 | 33.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.0% |
| Medway 033C | 1,532 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.1% |
| Medway 033D | 1,718 | 68.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Medway 034A | 1,493 | 64.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.9% |
| Medway 034B | 1,446 | 95.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.2% |
| Medway 034C | 1,631 | 34.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Medway 034D | 1,527 | 38.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| Medway 037A | 1,661 | 90.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.7% |
| Medway 037B | 1,658 | 46.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.8% |
| Medway 037C | 1,677 | 85.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.0% |
| Medway 037D | 1,463 | 32.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.5% |
| Medway 038A | 1,531 | 54.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
| Medway 038B | 1,464 | 130.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.0% |
| Medway 038C | 1,719 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.3% |
| Medway 038D | 1,603 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Medway 038E | 1,599 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.4% |
| Tonbridge and Malling 001B | 1,333 | 20.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Tonbridge and Malling 001D | 1,372 | 50.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
Your MP
- Tristan OsborneLabourMP for Chatham and Aylesford
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 Chatham2
Middle areas in Chatham10
Towns near Chatham6
Chatham in brief
Chatham is a town in Medway, South East.
About 79,628 people lived in Chatham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £287,500 in 2025 across 951 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 125.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chatham was £287,500 in 2025.
Chatham had 76,956 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Chatham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chatham, 91.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.