Rochester
TownTown in Medway, South East.
Rochester is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rochester 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 100% of people in Rochester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rochester compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rochester safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rochester at a rate of 96.6 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, 675 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rochester.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,566), anti-social behaviour (1,339) and other crime (1,054).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rochester was 102.8 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 Rochester, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rochester has no single figure. Of its 39 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Rochester
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medway 004B | 1,954 | 67.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 57.9% |
| Medway 004C | 2,185 | 48.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.3% |
| Medway 004D | 1,412 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.3% |
| Medway 004E | 1,528 | 94.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.0% |
| Medway 005A | 1,390 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.8% |
| Medway 005B | 1,405 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Medway 005C | 1,494 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| Medway 005D | 1,679 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.9% |
| Medway 006A | 1,612 | 73.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| Medway 006B | 1,718 | 94.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.2% |
| Medway 006C | 1,592 | 97.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Medway 006D | 1,524 | 195.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.9% |
| Medway 006E | 1,799 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.5% |
| Medway 008A | 1,703 | 52.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Medway 008B | 1,562 | 117.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.6% |
| Medway 008C | 1,563 | 173.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.2% |
| Medway 008D | 1,664 | 103.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.5% |
| Medway 011A | 1,804 | 75.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.9% |
| Medway 011B | 1,732 | 387.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 74.5% |
| Medway 011C | 1,706 | 52.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Medway 011D | 2,419 | 73.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.0% |
| Medway 011E | 2,416 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.8% |
| Medway 014A | 1,956 | 143.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.7% |
| Medway 014B | 1,977 | 102.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.6% |
| Medway 014C | 1,827 | 346.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 61.9% |
| Medway 014D | 1,698 | 55.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 86.5% |
| Medway 015F | 1,582 | 174.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 74.9% |
| Medway 017A | 1,494 | 57.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Medway 017B | 1,554 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Medway 017C | 1,984 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Medway 017D | 1,751 | 106.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| Medway 024A | 1,917 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| Medway 024B | 1,511 | 80.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.5% |
| Medway 024C | 2,228 | 84.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Medway 024D | 1,763 | 44.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| Medway 026A | 1,510 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.3% |
| Medway 026B | 1,449 | 92.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.1% |
| Medway 026C | 1,782 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.1% |
| Medway 026D | 1,700 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Lauren EdwardsLabourMP for Rochester and Strood
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Rochester3
Middle areas in Rochester9
Towns near Rochester6
Rochester in brief
Rochester is a town in Medway, South East.
About 69,873 people lived in Rochester in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £310,000 in 2025 across 903 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 96.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rochester was £310,000 in 2025.
Rochester had 67,279 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Rochester live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rochester, 89.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.