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Sevenoaks

Town

Town in Sevenoaks, South East.

Sevenoaks is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sevenoaks 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 89% of people in Sevenoaks live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£725,000
Joint 16th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
26,474
421st most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
89%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
85.5%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Sevenoaks compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

SevenoaksMiddle
Median sale price209 towns, South East · 2025
Median sale price: every town in South East209 areas from £215,500 to £1,300,000. The middle area is £393,500. Sevenoaks is £725,000.
£725,0008th most expensive
Population209 towns, South East · 2021
Population: every town in South East209 areas from 7,523 to 277,096. The middle area is 20,220. Sevenoaks is 26,474.
26,47480th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares209 towns, South East · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in South East209 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 36.0%. Sevenoaks is 89.0%.
89%58th most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage209 towns, South East · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in South East209 areas from 64.6% to 99.6%. The middle area is 90.4%. Sevenoaks is 85.5%.
85.5%joint 56th lowest

Is Sevenoaks safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sevenoaks at a rate of 56.7 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, 120 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sevenoaks.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (407), anti-social behaviour (278) and shoplifting (249).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sevenoaks was 60.9 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 Sevenoaks, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sevenoaks has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Sevenoaks

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Sevenoaks 008B1,70883.0 per 1,000989.1%
Sevenoaks 010B1,72442.7 per 1,000697.5%
Sevenoaks 010C2,44034.2 per 1,0001096.2%
Sevenoaks 010D1,421111.3 per 1,000583.3%
Sevenoaks 010E1,39182.2 per 1,000596.3%
Sevenoaks 010F1,58068.6 per 1,000989.3%
Sevenoaks 011A1,71441.2 per 1,000976.4%
Sevenoaks 011B1,44523.6 per 1,0001089.0%
Sevenoaks 011C1,40220.5 per 1,0001061.7%
Sevenoaks 011D1,60952.2 per 1,0001045.1%
Sevenoaks 011E1,69312.0 per 1,0001080.2%
Sevenoaks 011F1,77629.1 per 1,0001088.9%
Sevenoaks 012C1,65835.4 per 1,000898.2%
Sevenoaks 012D1,78157.2 per 1,0001089.4%
Sevenoaks 012E1,66842.6 per 1,0001088.7%
Sevenoaks 012F2,012155.0 per 1,0001075.5%

Your MP

As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

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Postcode districts covering Sevenoaks2

Middle areas in Sevenoaks3

Towns near Sevenoaks6

Sevenoaks in brief

Sevenoaks is a town in Sevenoaks, South East.

About 26,884 people lived in Sevenoaks in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £725,000 in 2025 across 425 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 56.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Sevenoaks was £725,000 in 2025.

Sevenoaks had 26,474 usual residents at the census.

About 89% of people in Sevenoaks live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Sevenoaks, 85.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.