Kettering
TownTown in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
Kettering is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kettering 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Kettering, 97.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Kettering compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kettering safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kettering at a rate of 108.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 630 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kettering.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,602), anti-social behaviour (1,680) and other crime (1,143).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kettering was 119.0 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 Kettering, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kettering has no single figure. Of its 35 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 11 neighbourhoods
- 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 Kettering
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Northamptonshire 015A | 1,860 | 82.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| North Northamptonshire 015B | 1,957 | 52.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 015C | 1,159 | 59.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 015D | 1,256 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 015E | 2,210 | 125.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% |
| North Northamptonshire 016A | 1,578 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| North Northamptonshire 016B | 1,869 | 95.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| North Northamptonshire 016C | 1,526 | 102.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 016D | 1,962 | 175.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| North Northamptonshire 016E | 1,807 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.2% |
| North Northamptonshire 017A | 2,562 | 135.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 017B | 2,123 | 82.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| North Northamptonshire 017C | 2,174 | 104.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 017D | 2,344 | 146.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 018A | 2,459 | 143.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.1% |
| North Northamptonshire 018B | 2,263 | 120.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 018C | 2,097 | 73.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| North Northamptonshire 018D | 2,199 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| North Northamptonshire 018E | 1,482 | 148.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.1% |
| North Northamptonshire 018F | 1,013 | 520.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.8% |
| North Northamptonshire 018G | 1,116 | 767.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 83.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 019A | 1,153 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 019B | 1,523 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| North Northamptonshire 019C | 1,164 | 34.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 019D | 1,481 | 108.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 019E | 1,179 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 021A | 2,353 | 64.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 021B | 1,576 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 021C | 2,101 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 021D | 1,284 | 28.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Northamptonshire 021E | 2,395 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 022A | 1,788 | 135.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| North Northamptonshire 022B | 1,649 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| North Northamptonshire 022C | 1,905 | 110.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| North Northamptonshire 022D | 2,280 | 139.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
Your MP
- Rosie WrightingLabourMP for Kettering
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Kettering2
Middle areas in Kettering7
Towns near Kettering6
Kettering in brief
Kettering is a town in North Northamptonshire, East Midlands.
About 66,228 people lived in Kettering in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £255,000 in 2025 across 968 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 108.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kettering was £255,000 in 2025.
Kettering had 63,149 usual residents at the census.
In Kettering, 97.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Kettering, 4.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.