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Tonbridge

Town

Town in Tonbridge and Malling, South East.

Tonbridge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Tonbridge 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 0% of people in Tonbridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£420,000
Joint 162nd most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
36,136
303rd most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
92.7%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Tonbridge compares

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

TonbridgeMiddle
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. Tonbridge is £420,000.
£420,000joint 83rd 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. Tonbridge is 36,136.
36,13653rd 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%. Tonbridge is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest 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%. Tonbridge is 92.7%.
92.7%joint 78th highest

Is Tonbridge safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Tonbridge at a rate of 81.7 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, 308 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Tonbridge.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (980), anti-social behaviour (587) and other crime (438).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Tonbridge was 78.8 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 Tonbridge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Tonbridge has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods

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

Neighbourhoods in Tonbridge

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Tonbridge and Malling 009A1,36518.4 per 1,000988.6%
Tonbridge and Malling 009B1,13622.8 per 1,0001085.4%
Tonbridge and Malling 009C1,679117.4 per 1,000298.2%
Tonbridge and Malling 009D1,38673.2 per 1,0004100.0%
Tonbridge and Malling 009E1,166141.0 per 1,000393.7%
Tonbridge and Malling 010A1,63726.8 per 1,000999.5%
Tonbridge and Malling 011A1,70357.5 per 1,000599.6%
Tonbridge and Malling 011B1,36810.5 per 1,00010100.0%
Tonbridge and Malling 011C1,62568.5 per 1,000499.5%
Tonbridge and Malling 011D1,52622.0 per 1,000899.7%
Tonbridge and Malling 011E1,50726.0 per 1,0001091.7%
Tonbridge and Malling 012A2,071223.7 per 1,000778.0%
Tonbridge and Malling 012B1,78930.1 per 1,0001098.6%
Tonbridge and Malling 012C1,53442.9 per 1,000597.1%
Tonbridge and Malling 012E2,08680.6 per 1,000495.9%
Tonbridge and Malling 012F1,81971.9 per 1,0001076.5%
Tonbridge and Malling 012G1,518181.4 per 1,000877.5%
Tonbridge and Malling 012H1,693122.1 per 1,000789.4%
Tonbridge and Malling 013A1,647147.1 per 1,000995.4%
Tonbridge and Malling 013B1,69536.5 per 1,000895.8%
Tonbridge and Malling 013C1,84735.7 per 1,00010100.0%
Tonbridge and Malling 013D1,841151.3 per 1,000796.5%
Tonbridge and Malling 013E1,57243.6 per 1,000796.7%

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 Tonbridge2

Middle areas in Tonbridge4

Towns near Tonbridge6

Tonbridge in brief

Tonbridge is a town in Tonbridge and Malling, South East.

About 37,210 people lived in Tonbridge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £420,000 in 2025 across 562 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 81.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Tonbridge was £420,000 in 2025.

Tonbridge had 36,136 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Tonbridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Tonbridge, 92.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.