Faversham
TownTown in Swale, South East.
Faversham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Faversham 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 Faversham, 81.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Faversham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Faversham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Faversham at a rate of 90.3 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, 192 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Faversham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (652), anti-social behaviour (496) and other crime (315).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Faversham was 97.9 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 Faversham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Faversham has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Faversham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swale 014A | 1,228 | 121.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 76.7% |
| Swale 014B | 1,239 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.1% |
| Swale 014C | 1,214 | 114.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 75.0% |
| Swale 014D | 1,283 | 34.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.4% |
| Swale 014E | 2,052 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.2% |
| Swale 014F | 1,957 | 91.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.3% |
| Swale 015A | 2,193 | 69.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 78.2% |
| Swale 015B | 2,307 | 81.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.2% |
| Swale 015C | 1,976 | 230.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 80.9% |
| Swale 015D | 1,674 | 99.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.1% |
| Swale 015E | 1,410 | 122.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.7% |
| Swale 015F | 1,902 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 60.0% |
Your MP
- Helen WhatelyConservativeMP for Faversham and Mid Kent
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 Faversham1
Middle areas in Faversham2
Towns near Faversham6
Faversham in brief
Faversham is a town in Swale, South East.
About 23,076 people lived in Faversham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £350,000 in 2025 across 427 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 90.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Faversham was £350,000 in 2025.
Faversham had 20,941 usual residents at the census.
In Faversham, 81.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Faversham, 2.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.