Gillingham
TownTown in Medway, South East.
Gillingham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Gillingham 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 78% of people in Gillingham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Gillingham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Gillingham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Gillingham at a rate of 99.4 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, 980 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Gillingham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,076), anti-social behaviour (2,223) and other crime (1,919).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Gillingham was 102.0 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 Gillingham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Gillingham has no single figure. Of its 68 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Gillingham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medway 007A | 1,961 | 83.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.1% |
| Medway 007F | 1,841 | 39.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Medway 007G | 1,832 | 16.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Medway 007H | 2,125 | 237.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 64.3% |
| Medway 007I | 1,643 | 125.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 65.0% |
| Medway 009A | 1,279 | 102.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.7% |
| Medway 009C | 1,717 | 309.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Medway 009D | 1,694 | 111.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Medway 009E | 1,719 | 110.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 56.1% |
| Medway 009F | 1,629 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Medway 010A | 1,886 | 92.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.4% |
| Medway 010B | 1,349 | 143.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Medway 010C | 2,541 | 76.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.1% |
| Medway 010D | 1,610 | 76.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Medway 012A | 1,797 | 341.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 79.7% |
| Medway 012B | 1,768 | 157.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| Medway 012C | 1,686 | 233.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.9% |
| Medway 012D | 2,109 | 236.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.5% |
| Medway 013A | 1,821 | 155.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Medway 013B | 1,471 | 102.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Medway 013C | 1,455 | 78.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Medway 013D | 1,538 | 153.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Medway 013E | 1,481 | 97.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Medway 016A | 1,775 | 82.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.8% |
| Medway 016B | 1,612 | 178.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.4% |
| Medway 016C | 1,772 | 93.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Medway 016D | 1,719 | 144.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Medway 018A | 1,536 | 73.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Medway 018B | 1,596 | 168.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Medway 018C | 1,648 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Medway 018D | 1,332 | 84.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Medway 018E | 1,481 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Medway 018F | 1,266 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Medway 019A | 1,510 | 126.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Medway 019B | 1,486 | 235.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Medway 019C | 1,959 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Medway 019D | 1,328 | 76.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Medway 023A | 1,812 | 58.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 70.2% |
| Medway 023B | 1,535 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| Medway 023C | 1,565 | 84.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Medway 023D | 1,442 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Medway 025A | 1,578 | 44.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.3% |
| Medway 025B | 1,340 | 52.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| Medway 025C | 1,477 | 41.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| Medway 025D | 1,464 | 142.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.8% |
| Medway 025E | 1,441 | 70.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Medway 029A | 1,780 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.3% |
| Medway 029B | 1,569 | 90.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Medway 029C | 1,547 | 37.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.0% |
| Medway 029D | 1,526 | 20.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Medway 030A | 1,631 | 50.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Medway 030B | 1,320 | 141.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Medway 030C | 1,516 | 15.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Medway 030D | 1,505 | 140.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Medway 032A | 1,444 | 61.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Medway 032B | 1,903 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.6% |
| Medway 032C | 1,417 | 25.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Medway 032D | 1,489 | 52.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Medway 035A | 1,674 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| Medway 035B | 1,562 | 28.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Medway 035C | 1,664 | 155.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Medway 035D | 1,579 | 21.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Medway 035E | 1,615 | 37.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.1% |
| Medway 036A | 1,500 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Medway 036B | 1,533 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Medway 036C | 1,536 | 67.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Medway 036D | 1,396 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Medway 036E | 1,428 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Naushabah KhanLabourMP for Gillingham and Rainham
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 Gillingham3
Middle areas in Gillingham15
Towns near Gillingham6
Gillingham in brief
Gillingham is a town in Medway, South East.
About 114,100 people lived in Gillingham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £318,000 in 2025 across 1,437 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 99.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Gillingham was £318,000 in 2025.
Gillingham had 108,485 usual residents at the census.
About 78% of people in Gillingham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Gillingham, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.