Royal Tunbridge Wells
TownTown in Tunbridge Wells, South East.
Royal Tunbridge Wells is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Royal Tunbridge Wells compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Royal Tunbridge Wells safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Royal Tunbridge Wells at a rate of 79.4 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, 392 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Royal Tunbridge Wells.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,335), anti-social behaviour (915) and other crime (651).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Royal Tunbridge Wells was 78.9 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Royal Tunbridge Wells has no single figure. Of its 27 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Royal Tunbridge Wells
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tunbridge Wells 002A | 1,858 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.1% |
| Tunbridge Wells 003A | 1,735 | 53.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.7% |
| Tunbridge Wells 003B | 2,889 | 125.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.6% |
| Tunbridge Wells 005A | 1,858 | 114.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.5% |
| Tunbridge Wells 005B | 1,981 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.3% |
| Tunbridge Wells 005C | 1,630 | 63.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.0% |
| Tunbridge Wells 007A | 2,124 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 85.0% |
| Tunbridge Wells 007B | 1,621 | 14.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 79.7% |
| Tunbridge Wells 007C | 2,062 | 20.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.3% |
| Tunbridge Wells 007D | 1,765 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.5% |
| Tunbridge Wells 008B | 1,824 | 39.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.8% |
| Tunbridge Wells 008C | 1,856 | 326.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 69.7% |
| Tunbridge Wells 008D | 2,562 | 84.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.8% |
| Tunbridge Wells 008E | 1,205 | 193.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 65.6% |
| Tunbridge Wells 008F | 1,650 | 161.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 73.5% |
| Tunbridge Wells 009A | 2,072 | 67.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 78.3% |
| Tunbridge Wells 009B | 2,227 | 45.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 79.7% |
| Tunbridge Wells 009C | 1,696 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.6% |
| Tunbridge Wells 009D | 1,634 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
| Tunbridge Wells 009E | 2,218 | 44.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.2% |
| Tunbridge Wells 010A | 1,570 | 79.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.6% |
| Tunbridge Wells 010B | 1,379 | 121.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 81.9% |
| Tunbridge Wells 012A | 1,658 | 22.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.3% |
| Tunbridge Wells 012B | 1,703 | 20.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 77.7% |
| Tunbridge Wells 012C | 1,792 | 28.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 77.9% |
| Tunbridge Wells 012D | 1,523 | 183.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 70.3% |
| Tunbridge Wells 012E | 1,754 | 19.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 77.8% |
Your MP
- Mike MartinLiberal DemocratMP for Tunbridge Wells
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Royal Tunbridge Wells3
Middle areas in Royal Tunbridge Wells6
Towns near Royal Tunbridge Wells6
Royal Tunbridge Wells in brief
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Tunbridge Wells, South East.
About 53,023 people lived in Royal Tunbridge Wells in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £415,000 in 2025 across 881 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 79.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Royal Tunbridge Wells was £415,000 in 2025.
Royal Tunbridge Wells had 51,215 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Royal Tunbridge Wells live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Royal Tunbridge Wells, 84.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.