Hoo St Werburgh
TownTown in Medway, South East.
Hoo St Werburgh is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hoo St Werburgh 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 Hoo St Werburgh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hoo St Werburgh compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hoo St Werburgh safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hoo St Werburgh at a rate of 61.8 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, 85 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hoo St Werburgh.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (258), anti-social behaviour (176) and other crime (88).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hoo St Werburgh was 68.8 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 Hoo St Werburgh, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hoo St Werburgh has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hoo St Werburgh
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medway 001D | 2,038 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 75.5% |
| Medway 003B | 1,729 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.2% |
| Medway 003D | 1,595 | 104.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.8% |
| Medway 003F | 1,744 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.5% |
| Medway 003G | 1,842 | 55.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.3% |
Your MP
- Lauren EdwardsLabourMP for Rochester and Strood
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 Hoo St Werburgh1
Middle areas in Hoo St Werburgh1
Towns near Hoo St Werburgh6
Hoo St Werburgh in brief
Hoo St Werburgh is a town in Medway, South East.
About 9,981 people lived in Hoo St Werburgh in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £332,000 in 2025 across 121 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hoo St Werburgh was £332,000 in 2025.
Hoo St Werburgh had 8,758 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Hoo St Werburgh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hoo St Werburgh, 91.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.