Sittingbourne
TownTown in Swale, South East.
Sittingbourne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sittingbourne 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 67% of people in Sittingbourne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sittingbourne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sittingbourne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sittingbourne at a rate of 100.5 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, 560 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sittingbourne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,874), anti-social behaviour (1,382) and other crime (809).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sittingbourne was 109.3 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 Sittingbourne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sittingbourne has no single figure. Of its 32 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Sittingbourne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swale 007B | 1,642 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Swale 007C | 1,355 | 76.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.2% |
| Swale 007D | 1,651 | 26.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.0% |
| Swale 007F | 1,767 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Swale 007I | 1,578 | 89.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.4% |
| Swale 007J | 1,513 | 110.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.8% |
| Swale 009B | 1,846 | 169.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.1% |
| Swale 009E | 1,554 | 149.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.8% |
| Swale 009F | 1,853 | 92.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.6% |
| Swale 009G | 1,760 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 76.0% |
| Swale 009H | 1,724 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.3% |
| Swale 009I | 1,420 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| Swale 010A | 1,411 | 151.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.1% |
| Swale 010B | 1,753 | 154.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.8% |
| Swale 010C | 1,557 | 182.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.0% |
| Swale 010D | 2,033 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.4% |
| Swale 010E | 2,066 | 496.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 62.4% |
| Swale 011A | 2,717 | 99.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 90.6% |
| Swale 011B | 1,275 | 72.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
| Swale 011C | 1,393 | 102.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.7% |
| Swale 011D | 1,463 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Swale 011E | 1,701 | 58.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Swale 012A | 1,416 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Swale 012B | 1,704 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.0% |
| Swale 012C | 1,861 | 52.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.3% |
| Swale 012D | 1,681 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Swale 012E | 1,502 | 25.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.1% |
| Swale 013A | 1,356 | 61.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.4% |
| Swale 013D | 1,154 | 124.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| Swale 013E | 1,666 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 80.2% |
| Swale 013F | 1,633 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| Swale 013G | 1,539 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.9% |
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 Sittingbourne2
Middle areas in Sittingbourne6
Towns near Sittingbourne6
Sittingbourne in brief
Sittingbourne is a town in Swale, South East.
About 57,225 people lived in Sittingbourne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 894 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sittingbourne was £300,000 in 2025.
Sittingbourne had 54,385 usual residents at the census.
About 67% of people in Sittingbourne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sittingbourne, 92.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.