Deal
TownTown in Dover, South East.
Deal is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Deal 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 88% of people in Deal live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Deal compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Deal safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Deal at a rate of 61.0 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, 215 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Deal.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (775), anti-social behaviour (358) and other crime (255).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Deal was 75.6 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 Deal, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Deal has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Deal
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dover 003A | 1,314 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.6% |
| Dover 003B | 1,558 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.5% |
| Dover 003C | 1,483 | 48.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Dover 003D | 1,393 | 34.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| Dover 003E | 1,379 | 28.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.6% |
| Dover 004A | 1,215 | 267.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.4% |
| Dover 004B | 1,264 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.3% |
| Dover 004C | 1,292 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.2% |
| Dover 004D | 2,281 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.0% |
| Dover 005C | 1,553 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.8% |
| Dover 005D | 1,652 | 38.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Dover 005E | 1,532 | 62.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Dover 005F | 1,746 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.0% |
| Dover 005G | 1,407 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.4% |
| Dover 007A | 1,372 | 102.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| Dover 007B | 1,599 | 68.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.9% |
| Dover 007C | 1,529 | 38.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.3% |
| Dover 007D | 1,645 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 79.7% |
| Dover 007E | 1,569 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.3% |
| Dover 009D | 1,665 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.7% |
Your MP
- Mike TappLabourMP for Dover and Deal
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 Deal1
Middle areas in Deal4
Towns near Deal6
Deal in brief
Deal is a town in Dover, South East.
About 29,180 people lived in Deal in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £295,000 in 2025 across 509 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Deal was £295,000 in 2025.
Deal had 28,992 usual residents at the census.
About 88% of people in Deal live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Deal, 91.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.