Paddock Wood
TownTown in Tunbridge Wells, South East.
Paddock Wood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Paddock Wood 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 Paddock Wood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Paddock Wood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Paddock Wood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Paddock Wood at a rate of 93.2 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, 60 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Paddock Wood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (216), shoplifting (180) and anti-social behaviour (146).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Paddock Wood was 81.3 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 Paddock Wood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Paddock Wood has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Paddock Wood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tunbridge Wells 001B | 1,191 | 30.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| Tunbridge Wells 001C | 1,389 | 46.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.7% |
| Tunbridge Wells 001D | 1,608 | 226.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 81.0% |
| Tunbridge Wells 001E | 1,265 | 56.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.2% |
| Tunbridge Wells 001F | 1,198 | 50.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 70.1% |
| Tunbridge Wells 001G | 1,510 | 94.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.2% |
Your MP
- Mike MartinLiberal DemocratMP for Tunbridge Wells
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 Paddock Wood1
Middle areas in Paddock Wood1
Towns near Paddock Wood6
Paddock Wood in brief
Paddock Wood is a town in Tunbridge Wells, South East.
About 8,561 people lived in Paddock Wood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £406,000 in 2025 across 140 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Paddock Wood was £406,000 in 2025.
Paddock Wood had 7,616 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Paddock Wood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Paddock Wood, 88.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.