Swanscombe
TownTown in Dartford, South East.
Swanscombe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Swanscombe 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 83% of people in Swanscombe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Swanscombe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Swanscombe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Swanscombe at a rate of 91.9 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 Swanscombe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (461), anti-social behaviour (297) and other crime (266).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Swanscombe was 93.2 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 Swanscombe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Swanscombe has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Swanscombe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartford 002C | 2,648 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| Dartford 002D | 2,853 | 130.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 72.5% |
| Dartford 002F | 1,728 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.1% |
| Dartford 004B | 1,851 | 115.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.6% |
| Dartford 004C | 1,512 | 147.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.8% |
| Dartford 004D | 1,668 | 77.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Dartford 004E | 1,568 | 51.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.8% |
| Dartford 004F | 1,540 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.2% |
Your MP
- Jim DicksonLabourMP for Dartford
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 Swanscombe2
Middle areas in Swanscombe1
Towns near Swanscombe6
Swanscombe in brief
Swanscombe is a town in Dartford, South East.
About 15,957 people lived in Swanscombe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £325,000 in 2025 across 263 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 91.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Swanscombe was £325,000 in 2025.
Swanscombe had 15,462 usual residents at the census.
About 83% of people in Swanscombe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Swanscombe, 93.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.