Sheerness
TownTown in Swale, South East.
Sheerness is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sheerness 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 Sheerness live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sheerness compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sheerness safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sheerness at a rate of 211.0 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, 263 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sheerness.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (972), anti-social behaviour (699) and other crime (347).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sheerness was 192.6 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 Sheerness, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sheerness has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Sheerness
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swale 001A | 1,433 | 560.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 73.9% |
| Swale 001B | 1,823 | 130.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.9% |
| Swale 001C | 1,761 | 136.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.3% |
| Swale 001D | 1,690 | 148.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.7% |
| Swale 002A | 1,652 | 356.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 61.9% |
| Swale 002B | 1,617 | 115.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.2% |
| Swale 002C | 1,494 | 172.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 68.7% |
| Swale 002D | 1,783 | 112.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.0% |
Your MP
- Kevin McKennaLabourMP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey
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 Sheerness1
Middle areas in Sheerness2
Towns near Sheerness6
Sheerness in brief
Sheerness is a town in Swale, South East.
About 13,496 people lived in Sheerness in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £215,500 in 2025 across 108 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 211.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sheerness was £215,500 in 2025.
Sheerness had 13,253 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Sheerness live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sheerness, 85.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.