Northfleet
TownTown in Gravesham, South East.
Northfleet is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Northfleet 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 88% of people in Northfleet live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Northfleet compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Northfleet safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Northfleet at a rate of 92.1 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, 257 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Northfleet.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,093), anti-social behaviour (526) and other crime (520).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Northfleet was 107.6 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 Northfleet, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Northfleet has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Northfleet
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravesham 001A | 2,658 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 68.7% |
| Gravesham 001B | 2,032 | 130.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 53.8% |
| Gravesham 001C | 2,057 | 169.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 46.1% |
| Gravesham 001D | 1,649 | 106.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.9% |
| Gravesham 004A | 1,778 | 123.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.6% |
| Gravesham 004B | 1,616 | 89.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Gravesham 004C | 1,667 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.1% |
| Gravesham 004D | 1,304 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Gravesham 004E | 1,642 | 104.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| Gravesham 006B | 1,449 | 255.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.5% |
| Gravesham 006C | 1,363 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Gravesham 006D | 1,466 | 84.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Gravesham 006E | 1,334 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Gravesham 006F | 1,457 | 53.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.2% |
| Gravesham 006G | 1,575 | 93.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.7% |
| Gravesham 009A | 1,706 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Gravesham 009B | 1,518 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.8% |
Your MP
- Dr Lauren SullivanLabourMP for Gravesham
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 Northfleet1
Middle areas in Northfleet4
Towns near Northfleet6
Northfleet in brief
Northfleet is a town in Gravesham, South East.
About 31,805 people lived in Northfleet in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £325,000 in 2025 across 285 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 92.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Northfleet was £325,000 in 2025.
Northfleet had 29,892 usual residents at the census.
About 88% of people in Northfleet live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Northfleet, 83.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.