Hythe
TownTown in Folkestone and Hythe, South East.
Hythe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hythe 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 85% of people in Hythe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hythe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Hythe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hythe at a rate of 57.2 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, 106 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Hythe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (285), anti-social behaviour (175) and other crime (147).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Hythe was 58.6 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 Hythe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hythe has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Hythe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Folkestone and Hythe 005F | 1,253 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.6% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 008A | 1,559 | 37.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.9% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 008B | 1,464 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.3% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 008C | 1,631 | 46.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.7% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 009B | 1,888 | 20.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 82.8% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 010A | 1,367 | 25.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.8% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 010B | 1,441 | 112.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 65.5% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 010C | 1,539 | 129.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 80.4% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 010D | 1,435 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.3% |
| Folkestone and Hythe 010E | 1,404 | 35.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 72.3% |
Your MP
- Tony VaughanLabourMP for Folkestone and Hythe
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 Hythe1
Middle areas in Hythe2
Towns near Hythe6
Hythe in brief
Hythe is a town in Folkestone and Hythe, South East.
About 14,747 people lived in Hythe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £360,000 in 2025 across 286 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Hythe was £360,000 in 2025.
Hythe had 14,613 usual residents at the census.
About 85% of people in Hythe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hythe, 85.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.