Dorking
TownTown in Mole Valley, South East.
Dorking is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dorking 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 66% of people in Dorking live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dorking compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dorking safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dorking at a rate of 76.5 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, 103 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dorking.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (472), other crime (251) and anti-social behaviour (208).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dorking was 79.6 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 Dorking, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dorking has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dorking
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mole Valley 009A | 1,621 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.5% |
| Mole Valley 009B | 1,424 | 55.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.4% |
| Mole Valley 009C | 1,405 | 163.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 79.9% |
| Mole Valley 010A | 1,845 | 45.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.5% |
| Mole Valley 010B | 1,833 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.5% |
| Mole Valley 010C | 1,718 | 68.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.9% |
| Mole Valley 010D | 1,926 | 146.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.7% |
| Mole Valley 011B | 1,498 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.9% |
| Mole Valley 011C | 1,552 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.6% |
| Mole Valley 011D | 1,710 | 90.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.5% |
Your MP
- Chris CoghlanLiberal DemocratMP for Dorking and Horley
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 Dorking2
Middle areas in Dorking3
Towns near Dorking6
Dorking in brief
Dorking is a town in Mole Valley, South East.
About 17,893 people lived in Dorking in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £442,500 in 2025 across 266 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dorking was £442,500 in 2025.
Dorking had 17,463 usual residents at the census.
About 66% of people in Dorking live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dorking, 86.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.