Herne
TownTown in Canterbury, South East.
Herne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Herne 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 0% of people in Herne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Herne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Herne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Herne at a rate of 54.5 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, 84 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Herne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (382), anti-social behaviour (167) and other crime (127).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Herne was 47.1 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 Herne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Herne has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Herne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury 003A | 2,605 | 83.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.0% |
| Canterbury 003B | 1,585 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.7% |
| Canterbury 004B | 2,029 | 76.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.0% |
| Canterbury 006A | 2,580 | 54.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.8% |
| Canterbury 006B | 1,454 | 19.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| Canterbury 006C | 1,594 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.5% |
| Canterbury 006D | 1,822 | 44.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.8% |
| Canterbury 006E | 2,196 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.6% |
Your MP
- Sir Roger GaleConservativeMP for Herne Bay and Sandwich
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 Herne1
Middle areas in Herne1
Towns near Herne6
Herne in brief
Herne is a town in Canterbury, South East.
About 15,897 people lived in Herne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £344,000 in 2025 across 263 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 54.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Herne was £344,000 in 2025.
Herne had 14,874 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Herne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Herne, 92.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.