Kesgrave
TownTown in East Suffolk, East of England.
Kesgrave is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kesgrave 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 Kesgrave live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kesgrave compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kesgrave safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kesgrave at a rate of 23.5 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, 31 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kesgrave.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (204), other crime (56) and anti-social behaviour (35).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kesgrave was 23.3 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 Kesgrave, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kesgrave has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Kesgrave
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Suffolk 024A | 2,742 | 15.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| East Suffolk 024B | 1,380 | 14.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 024C | 1,898 | 30.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| East Suffolk 024D | 1,699 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.8% |
| East Suffolk 024E | 1,606 | 31.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |
| East Suffolk 025A | 1,948 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 025F | 1,588 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 025G | 1,540 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| East Suffolk 025H | 1,459 | 12.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.5% |
Your MP
- Patrick SpencerConservativeMP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
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 Kesgrave1
Middle areas in Kesgrave1
Towns near Kesgrave6
Kesgrave in brief
Kesgrave is a town in East Suffolk, East of England.
About 15,043 people lived in Kesgrave in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £340,000 in 2025 across 215 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 23.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kesgrave was £340,000 in 2025.
Kesgrave had 14,947 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Kesgrave live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kesgrave, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.