Folkestone
TownTown in Folkestone and Hythe, South East.
Folkestone is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Folkestone 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 94% of people in Folkestone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Folkestone compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Folkestone safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Folkestone at a rate of 124.0 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, 663 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Folkestone.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,257), anti-social behaviour (1,324) and other crime (1,017).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Folkestone was 116.7 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 Folkestone, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Folkestone has no single figure. Of its 32 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Folkestone
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Folkestone and Hythe 002A | 1,586 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 003A | 1,476 | 119.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.0% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 003B | 1,598 | 75.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.0% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 003C | 1,616 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 003D | 1,676 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.0% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 003E | 1,631 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.1% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 004A | 1,647 | 86.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 004B | 1,253 | 104.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 004C | 1,477 | 81.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 004D | 1,432 | 170.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 004E | 1,847 | 130.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.0% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 005A | 1,476 | 155.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.0% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 005B | 1,530 | 68.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 005C | 1,956 | 145.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.2% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 005D | 2,287 | 51.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 005E | 1,506 | 39.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.7% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 006A | 1,801 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 006B | 1,728 | 68.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.6% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 006C | 1,640 | 80.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.5% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 006D | 1,316 | 43.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.6% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 006E | 1,819 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.0% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 006F | 1,371 | 242.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.1% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 006G | 1,804 | 61.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.9% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 006H | 1,618 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.5% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 014A | 1,891 | 203.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 73.2% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 014B | 1,914 | 212.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.5% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 014C | 1,497 | 517.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 49.1% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 014D | 1,239 | 496.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 32.7% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 015A | 1,983 | 222.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 66.5% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 015B | 1,458 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 55.0% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 015C | 1,521 | 121.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 72.5% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 015D | 1,686 | 107.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
Your MP
- Tony VaughanLabourMP for Folkestone and Hythe
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Folkestone2
Middle areas in Folkestone6
Towns near Folkestone6
Folkestone in brief
Folkestone is a town in Folkestone and Hythe, South East.
About 53,719 people lived in Folkestone in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £284,000 in 2025 across 890 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 124.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Folkestone was £284,000 in 2025.
Folkestone had 51,987 usual residents at the census.
About 94% of people in Folkestone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Folkestone, 85.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.