Maidstone
TownTown in Maidstone, South East.
Maidstone is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Maidstone 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 92% of people in Maidstone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Maidstone compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Maidstone safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Maidstone at a rate of 103.9 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, 1,155 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Maidstone.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,424), anti-social behaviour (2,448) and other crime (1,831).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Maidstone was 106.6 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 Maidstone, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Maidstone has no single figure. Of its 62 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Maidstone
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maidstone 002A | 2,060 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.4% |
| Maidstone 002B | 1,437 | 51.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.9% |
| Maidstone 002C | 2,003 | 44.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.9% |
| Maidstone 002D | 1,675 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.5% |
| Maidstone 002E | 1,912 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.8% |
| Maidstone 003A | 1,749 | 30.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Maidstone 003B | 1,695 | 22.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| Maidstone 003C | 1,202 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.3% |
| Maidstone 003D | 1,836 | 79.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Maidstone 003E | 1,418 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.3% |
| Maidstone 003F | 1,852 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 30.3% |
| Maidstone 004A | 1,873 | 187.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 83.0% |
| Maidstone 004C | 1,994 | 99.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| Maidstone 004D | 2,767 | 105.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 73.8% |
| Maidstone 004E | 1,937 | 88.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.6% |
| Maidstone 004G | 1,489 | 123.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.9% |
| Maidstone 004H | 1,153 | 853.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 22.7% |
| Maidstone 004I | 1,079 | 544.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 52.7% |
| Maidstone 005B | 1,952 | 93.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 80.9% |
| Maidstone 005C | 1,458 | 30.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.9% |
| Maidstone 005D | 1,394 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.5% |
| Maidstone 005E | 1,600 | 36.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.0% |
| Maidstone 006A | 2,276 | 91.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.1% |
| Maidstone 006B | 2,586 | 122.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 75.5% |
| Maidstone 006C | 1,791 | 57.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.1% |
| Maidstone 006E | 2,282 | 132.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.1% |
| Maidstone 006F | 1,753 | 201.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 54.2% |
| Maidstone 006G | 1,677 | 115.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.8% |
| Maidstone 007E | 1,315 | 38.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Maidstone 008A | 1,707 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.0% |
| Maidstone 008B | 1,912 | 93.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.4% |
| Maidstone 008C | 1,739 | 105.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.0% |
| Maidstone 008E | 1,549 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| Maidstone 008F | 2,331 | 251.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.8% |
| Maidstone 008G | 1,823 | 70.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 73.3% |
| Maidstone 009A | 1,557 | 64.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Maidstone 009B | 2,218 | 221.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.4% |
| Maidstone 009C | 1,916 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.0% |
| Maidstone 009D | 1,965 | 76.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.8% |
| Maidstone 009E | 2,355 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.4% |
| Maidstone 010A | 1,780 | 35.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Maidstone 010B | 1,690 | 90.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.1% |
| Maidstone 010C | 1,643 | 134.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.8% |
| Maidstone 010D | 1,414 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| Maidstone 010E | 1,573 | 92.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Maidstone 012B | 1,466 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Maidstone 012C | 1,537 | 24.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 56.1% |
| Maidstone 012D | 1,662 | 92.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Maidstone 012E | 2,740 | 91.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.3% |
| Maidstone 013B | 1,830 | 114.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.9% |
| Maidstone 013C | 1,442 | 146.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Maidstone 013D | 1,419 | 110.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Maidstone 013E | 1,724 | 188.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Maidstone 013F | 1,332 | 64.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.3% |
| Maidstone 013G | 1,423 | 55.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Maidstone 013H | 1,530 | 120.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.1% |
| Maidstone 013I | 1,481 | 166.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.1% |
| Maidstone 014A | 2,389 | 62.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.5% |
| Maidstone 015B | 2,049 | 62.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| Maidstone 015F | 1,506 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.5% |
| Maidstone 015G | 1,441 | 82.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.4% |
| Maidstone 015H | 1,612 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.9% |
Your MP
- Helen GrantConservativeMP for Maidstone and Malling
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 Maidstone4
Middle areas in Maidstone11
Towns near Maidstone6
Maidstone in brief
Maidstone is a town in Maidstone, South East.
About 116,747 people lived in Maidstone in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £343,748 in 2025 across 1,592 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 103.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Maidstone was £343,748 in 2025.
Maidstone had 109,503 usual residents at the census.
About 92% of people in Maidstone live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Maidstone, 86.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.