# Kings Hill

Town in Tonbridge and Malling, South East.

Kings Hill is a town in Tonbridge and Malling, South East. Median sale price £545,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 50.0 per 1,000 people. About 10,515 people.

Town. Code E63005468. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Tonbridge and Malling](https://openindex.co.uk/tonbridge-and-malling)

Kings Hill is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kings Hill 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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £545,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Kings Hill was £545,000 in 2025. Joint 56th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/kings-hill#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 9,963** (2021). Kings Hill had 9,963 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 231st least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/kings-hill#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Kings Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/kings-hill#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 90.9%** (January 2026). In Kings Hill, 90.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/kings-hill#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63005468) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 100% of people in Kings Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63005468) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 184 homes were sold in Kings Hill in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63005468) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Kings Hill.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63005468) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Kings Hill had 9,963 usual residents at the census.

## How Kings Hill compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Kings Hill | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £545,000 | 28th most expensive | 209 towns, South East · 2025 |
| Population | 9,963 | 38th least populated | 209 towns, South East · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 209 towns, South East · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 90.9% | 98th highest | 209 towns, South East · Jan 2026 |

## Is Kings Hill safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kings Hill at a rate of 50.0 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, 75 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kings Hill.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (168), anti-social behaviour (157) and other crime (72).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kings Hill was 40.1 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 Kings Hill, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kings Hill has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Kings Hill

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Tonbridge and Malling 007C](https://openindex.co.uk/tonbridge-and-malling/neighbourhood/e01024760) | 1,491 | 39.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.6% |
| [Tonbridge and Malling 007E](https://openindex.co.uk/tonbridge-and-malling/neighbourhood/e01032825) | 2,983 | 68.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.8% |
| [Tonbridge and Malling 007F](https://openindex.co.uk/tonbridge-and-malling/neighbourhood/e01032826) | 1,732 | 73.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 73.8% |
| [Tonbridge and Malling 007G](https://openindex.co.uk/tonbridge-and-malling/neighbourhood/e01032827) | 2,135 | 21.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| [Tonbridge and Malling 007H](https://openindex.co.uk/tonbridge-and-malling/neighbourhood/e01032828) | 1,174 | 11.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.7% |

## Your MP

- [Maidstone and Malling](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/maidstone-and-malling): Helen Grant (Conservative), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Tonbridge and Malling](https://openindex.co.uk/tonbridge-and-malling)

## Postcode districts covering Kings Hill

[ME19](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/me19)

## Middle areas in Kings Hill

[Kings Hill & Wateringbury](https://openindex.co.uk/tonbridge-and-malling/kings-hill-and-wateringbury)

## Towns near Kings Hill

[Larkfield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/larkfield), [Maidstone](https://openindex.co.uk/town/maidstone), [Snodland](https://openindex.co.uk/town/snodland), [Coxheath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/coxheath), [Chatham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chatham), [Paddock Wood](https://openindex.co.uk/town/paddock-wood)

## Kings Hill in brief

Kings Hill is a town in Tonbridge and Malling, South East.
About 10,515 people lived in Kings Hill in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £545,000 in 2025 across 184 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 50.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kings Hill was £545,000 in 2025.
Kings Hill had 9,963 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Kings Hill live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kings Hill, 90.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63005468
- Constituency: [Maidstone and Malling †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/maidstone-and-malling)
- Council: [Tonbridge and Malling †](https://openindex.co.uk/tonbridge-and-malling)
- Region: [South East](https://openindex.co.uk/south-east)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.93 km²
- People, mid-2024: 10,515*
- Neighbourhoods: 5
- Output areas: 26

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Larkfield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/larkfield), [Maidstone](https://openindex.co.uk/town/maidstone), [Snodland](https://openindex.co.uk/town/snodland), [Coxheath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/coxheath), [Chatham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chatham), [Paddock Wood](https://openindex.co.uk/town/paddock-wood)

## Latest updates for Kings Hill

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63005468

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/kings-hill, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/kings-hill#f-house-sales-median-price.

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/kings-hill