Southborough
TownTown in Tunbridge Wells, South East.
Southborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Southborough 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 Southborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Southborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Southborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Southborough at a rate of 47.8 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, 46 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Southborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (175), other crime (82) and anti-social behaviour (78).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Southborough was 59.6 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 Southborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Southborough has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Southborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tunbridge Wells 002B | 1,585 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.6% |
| Tunbridge Wells 002C | 1,657 | 22.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.7% |
| Tunbridge Wells 002D | 1,621 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 76.3% |
| Tunbridge Wells 002E | 1,359 | 20.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 39.9% |
| Tunbridge Wells 003C | 1,359 | 75.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.4% |
| Tunbridge Wells 003D | 1,586 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| Tunbridge Wells 003E | 1,356 | 85.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 78.9% |
| Tunbridge Wells 005D | 1,444 | 93.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.9% |
Your MP
- Mike MartinLiberal DemocratMP for Tunbridge Wells
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 Southborough1
Middle areas in Southborough2
Towns near Southborough6
Southborough in brief
Southborough is a town in Tunbridge Wells, South East.
About 9,835 people lived in Southborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £442,500 in 2025 across 140 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 47.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Southborough was £442,500 in 2025.
Southborough had 9,632 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Southborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Southborough, 85.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.