Gravesend
TownTown in Gravesham, South East.
Gravesend is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Gravesend 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 100% of people in Gravesend live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Gravesend compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Gravesend safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Gravesend at a rate of 105.6 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, 567 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Gravesend.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,184), anti-social behaviour (1,454) and other crime (996).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Gravesend was 117.8 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 Gravesend, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Gravesend has no single figure. Of its 35 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 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 Gravesend
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravesham 002A | 1,920 | 202.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 72.1% |
| Gravesham 002C | 1,717 | 79.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.3% |
| Gravesham 002D | 1,830 | 121.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 76.3% |
| Gravesham 002E | 2,038 | 216.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 49.0% |
| Gravesham 002F | 1,444 | 619.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 57.3% |
| Gravesham 002G | 1,214 | 175.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 23.7% |
| Gravesham 003A | 1,647 | 98.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.7% |
| Gravesham 003B | 2,208 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.2% |
| Gravesham 003C | 1,826 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 79.0% |
| Gravesham 003D | 2,953 | 97.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.7% |
| Gravesham 003E | 2,952 | 93.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 79.9% |
| Gravesham 005A | 1,550 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Gravesham 005B | 1,737 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.3% |
| Gravesham 005C | 1,589 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.4% |
| Gravesham 005D | 1,563 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Gravesham 005E | 1,642 | 76.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Gravesham 005F | 1,564 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Gravesham 007A | 1,523 | 122.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.5% |
| Gravesham 007B | 1,581 | 86.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Gravesham 007C | 1,418 | 120.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Gravesham 007D | 1,286 | 73.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Gravesham 007E | 1,688 | 113.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.6% |
| Gravesham 008A | 1,535 | 51.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| Gravesham 008B | 1,386 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| Gravesham 008C | 1,410 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.4% |
| Gravesham 008D | 1,381 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Gravesham 008E | 1,373 | 31.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| Gravesham 009C | 2,499 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.7% |
| Gravesham 009D | 1,604 | 91.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| Gravesham 010D | 1,402 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 73.9% |
| Gravesham 011A | 1,543 | 56.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.1% |
| Gravesham 011B | 1,675 | 118.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.4% |
| Gravesham 011C | 1,716 | 107.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Gravesham 011D | 1,821 | 146.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Gravesham 011E | 1,556 | 82.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
Your MP
- Dr Lauren SullivanLabourMP for Gravesham
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Gravesend2
Middle areas in Gravesend6
Towns near Gravesend6
Gravesend in brief
Gravesend is a town in Gravesham, South East.
About 60,271 people lived in Gravesend 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 654 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 105.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Gravesend was £350,000 in 2025.
Gravesend had 58,105 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Gravesend live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Gravesend, 87.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.