Minster
TownTown in Swale, South East.
Minster is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Minster 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 Minster, 90.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Minster compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Minster safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Minster at a rate of 66.0 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, 91 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Minster.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (440), anti-social behaviour (271) and other crime (160).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Minster was 70.7 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 Minster, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Minster has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Minster
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swale 003A | 1,401 | 71.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Swale 003B | 1,876 | 73.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.1% |
| Swale 003C | 1,674 | 54.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.2% |
| Swale 003D | 1,632 | 40.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.2% |
| Swale 004D | 1,428 | 47.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.9% |
| Swale 004E | 1,399 | 89.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.1% |
| Swale 004F | 1,529 | 53.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.2% |
| Swale 004H | 1,495 | 130.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.7% |
| Swale 004I | 1,730 | 52.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.0% |
| Swale 005D | 1,588 | 83.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.6% |
| Swale 006C | 1,639 | 84.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 64.1% |
Your MP
- Kevin McKennaLabourMP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey
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 Minster1
Middle areas in Minster2
Towns near Minster6
Minster in brief
Minster is a town in Swale, South East.
About 17,121 people lived in Minster in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £315,000 in 2025 across 273 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 66.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Minster was £315,000 in 2025.
Minster had 16,735 usual residents at the census.
In Minster, 90.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Minster, 3.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.