Kempston
TownTown in Bedford, East of England.
Kempston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kempston 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 Kempston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kempston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kempston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kempston at a rate of 95.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 205 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kempston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (813), other crime (388) and anti-social behaviour (272).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kempston was 102.0 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 Kempston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kempston has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- 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 Kempston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford 016A | 1,230 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 81.7% |
| Bedford 016B | 1,589 | 48.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.0% |
| Bedford 016C | 1,183 | 58.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Bedford 016D | 1,505 | 116.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.9% |
| Bedford 017A | 1,549 | 129.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.9% |
| Bedford 017B | 1,569 | 58.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.4% |
| Bedford 017C | 1,391 | 53.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Bedford 017D | 1,698 | 97.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Bedford 018A | 1,477 | 79.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Bedford 018B | 1,725 | 318.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.9% |
| Bedford 018C | 1,651 | 69.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Bedford 018E | 1,568 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.0% |
| Bedford 018F | 1,540 | 58.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| Bedford 018G | 1,061 | 113.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Bedford 018H | 1,540 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.9% |
Your MP
- Mohammad YasinLabourMP for Bedford
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 Kempston1
Middle areas in Kempston3
Towns near Kempston6
Kempston in brief
Kempston is a town in Bedford, East of England.
About 23,315 people lived in Kempston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £310,000 in 2025 across 267 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 95.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kempston was £310,000 in 2025.
Kempston had 22,779 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Kempston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kempston, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.