Ramsgate
TownTown in Thanet, South East.
Ramsgate is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ramsgate 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 Ramsgate, 81.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Ramsgate compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ramsgate safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ramsgate at a rate of 136.9 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, 551 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ramsgate.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,353), anti-social behaviour (1,100) and other crime (857).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ramsgate was 138.2 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 Ramsgate, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ramsgate has no single figure. Of its 25 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ramsgate
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thanet 011A | 1,659 | 109.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.7% |
| Thanet 011B | 1,720 | 373.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.3% |
| Thanet 012A | 1,744 | 116.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.1% |
| Thanet 012B | 1,435 | 90.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.4% |
| Thanet 012C | 1,868 | 94.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.2% |
| Thanet 012D | 1,780 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.8% |
| Thanet 013A | 2,253 | 164.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 78.4% |
| Thanet 013B | 1,706 | 180.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.1% |
| Thanet 013C | 1,746 | 110.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.4% |
| Thanet 013D | 1,786 | 52.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Thanet 013E | 1,436 | 104.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.7% |
| Thanet 015A | 1,584 | 141.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.8% |
| Thanet 015B | 1,558 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.5% |
| Thanet 015C | 1,369 | 80.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Thanet 015D | 1,727 | 162.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.6% |
| Thanet 015E | 1,903 | 95.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.5% |
| Thanet 016A | 1,937 | 337.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 53.9% |
| Thanet 016B | 1,513 | 81.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 76.9% |
| Thanet 016C | 1,813 | 117.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 58.8% |
| Thanet 016D | 1,791 | 347.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 54.6% |
| Thanet 016E | 1,655 | 103.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 75.9% |
| Thanet 017A | 1,495 | 44.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 75.5% |
| Thanet 017B | 1,498 | 105.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 74.7% |
| Thanet 017D | 1,263 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 68.8% |
| Thanet 017E | 1,669 | 105.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.7% |
Your MP
- Ms Polly BillingtonLabourMP for East Thanet
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Ramsgate2
Middle areas in Ramsgate5
Towns near Ramsgate6
Ramsgate in brief
Ramsgate is a town in Thanet, South East.
About 42,905 people lived in Ramsgate in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £259,750 in 2025 across 586 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 136.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ramsgate was £259,750 in 2025.
Ramsgate had 42,031 usual residents at the census.
In Ramsgate, 81.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ramsgate, 6.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.