Dover
TownTown in Dover, South East.
Dover is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dover 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Dover, 85.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Dover compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dover safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dover at a rate of 151.1 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, 508 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dover.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,076), anti-social behaviour (1,073) and other crime (755).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dover was 155.5 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 Dover, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dover has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Dover
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dover 010C | 1,572 | 23.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.8% |
| Dover 010D | 1,556 | 70.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 79.4% |
| Dover 010G | 2,451 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 70.2% |
| Dover 011A | 1,547 | 118.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.1% |
| Dover 011B | 1,489 | 55.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.3% |
| Dover 011C | 1,454 | 64.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Dover 011D | 1,499 | 166.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 79.5% |
| Dover 011E | 1,569 | 92.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.8% |
| Dover 011F | 1,821 | 142.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.5% |
| Dover 011G | 2,168 | 126.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.3% |
| Dover 011H | 2,056 | 131.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.7% |
| Dover 012C | 1,815 | 187.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.7% |
| Dover 012D | 2,069 | 136.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.4% |
| Dover 012E | 1,131 | 264.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 66.6% |
| Dover 012F | 1,365 | 562.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 57.5% |
| Dover 013A | 1,737 | 92.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.9% |
| Dover 013B | 1,641 | 411.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.0% |
| Dover 013C | 1,539 | 67.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Dover 013D | 2,199 | 236.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.8% |
| Dover 013E | 2,037 | 186.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 58.2% |
| Dover 014B | 1,444 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.2% |
| Dover 014C | 1,385 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
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 Dover2
Middle areas in Dover4
Towns near Dover6
Dover in brief
Dover is a town in Dover, South East.
About 37,102 people lived in Dover in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £217,500 in 2025 across 449 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 151.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dover was £217,500 in 2025.
Dover had 36,349 usual residents at the census.
In Dover, 85.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Dover, 4.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.