Hawkinge
TownTown in Folkestone and Hythe, South East.
Hawkinge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hawkinge 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 Hawkinge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hawkinge compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hawkinge safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hawkinge at a rate of 51.3 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, 43 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hawkinge.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (155), anti-social behaviour (114) and other crime (78).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hawkinge was 59.7 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 Hawkinge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hawkinge has no single figure. Of its 4 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hawkinge
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Folkestone and Hythe 002B | 2,533 | 65.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 002C | 1,932 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.2% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 002E | 1,982 | 36.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.8% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 002F | 2,053 | 52.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.6% |
Your MP
- Sojan JosephLabourMP for Ashford
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 Hawkinge1
Middle areas in Hawkinge1
Towns near Hawkinge6
Hawkinge in brief
Hawkinge is a town in Folkestone and Hythe, South East.
About 8,689 people lived in Hawkinge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £346,000 in 2025 across 153 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 51.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hawkinge was £346,000 in 2025.
Hawkinge had 8,499 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Hawkinge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hawkinge, 97.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.