Margate
TownTown in Thanet, South East.
Margate is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Margate 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 Margate live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Margate compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Margate safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Margate at a rate of 121.8 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, 802 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Margate.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,035), anti-social behaviour (1,562) and other crime (1,143).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Margate was 127.1 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 Margate, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Margate has no single figure. Of its 38 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Margate
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thanet 001A | 2,510 | 166.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 78.0% |
| Thanet 001B | 2,275 | 129.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 62.1% |
| Thanet 001C | 1,717 | 123.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.2% |
| Thanet 001D | 1,864 | 97.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 67.0% |
| Thanet 001F | 1,109 | 580.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 27.9% |
| Thanet 001G | 1,160 | 426.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 61.9% |
| Thanet 002A | 1,669 | 30.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 25.4% |
| Thanet 002B | 1,584 | 38.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 80.2% |
| Thanet 002C | 1,513 | 31.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.1% |
| Thanet 002D | 1,671 | 68.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.3% |
| Thanet 003A | 2,153 | 550.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 61.0% |
| Thanet 003B | 1,811 | 83.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Thanet 003C | 1,325 | 108.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Thanet 003D | 1,204 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.5% |
| Thanet 003E | 1,502 | 171.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 88.9% |
| Thanet 004A | 1,561 | 176.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.3% |
| Thanet 004B | 1,592 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Thanet 004C | 1,541 | 60.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.9% |
| Thanet 004D | 1,649 | 188.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 71.6% |
| Thanet 004E | 1,540 | 157.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 65.7% |
| Thanet 005A | 1,483 | 115.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.7% |
| Thanet 005B | 1,869 | 106.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.8% |
| Thanet 005C | 1,636 | 22.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.1% |
| Thanet 005D | 1,443 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.8% |
| Thanet 005E | 1,617 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| Thanet 006C | 1,536 | 184.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 55.3% |
| Thanet 006D | 1,571 | 155.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 41.3% |
| Thanet 006E | 1,606 | 83.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 59.7% |
| Thanet 007A | 1,530 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.3% |
| Thanet 007B | 1,844 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.9% |
| Thanet 007C | 1,680 | 88.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 77.7% |
| Thanet 007D | 1,899 | 120.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.0% |
| Thanet 007E | 2,095 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.5% |
| Thanet 008A | 2,118 | 18.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.7% |
| Thanet 008B | 1,765 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.7% |
| Thanet 008C | 1,681 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.5% |
| Thanet 008D | 1,642 | 98.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.1% |
| Thanet 008E | 1,658 | 46.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.3% |
Your MP
- Ms Polly BillingtonLabourMP for East Thanet
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 Margate3
Middle areas in Margate8
Towns near Margate6
Margate in brief
Margate is a town in Thanet, South East.
About 63,578 people lived in Margate in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £287,500 in 2025 across 921 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 121.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Margate was £287,500 in 2025.
Margate had 63,315 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Margate live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Margate, 78.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.