Whitstable
TownTown in Canterbury, South East.
Whitstable is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whitstable 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 Whitstable live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whitstable compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Whitstable safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Whitstable at a rate of 83.1 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, 214 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Whitstable.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (850), shoplifting (489) and anti-social behaviour (472).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Whitstable was 82.3 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 Whitstable, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whitstable has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Whitstable
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury 004A | 1,451 | 101.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.4% |
| Canterbury 005A | 1,907 | 30.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 56.2% |
| Canterbury 005B | 1,775 | 26.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.3% |
| Canterbury 005C | 1,606 | 95.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.7% |
| Canterbury 005D | 1,736 | 16.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.1% |
| Canterbury 005E | 1,413 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Canterbury 007A | 1,582 | 27.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.2% |
| Canterbury 007B | 1,480 | 134.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 77.8% |
| Canterbury 007C | 1,592 | 52.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.8% |
| Canterbury 007D | 1,669 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.9% |
| Canterbury 007E | 1,485 | 96.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.0% |
| Canterbury 008A | 1,499 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.3% |
| Canterbury 008B | 1,226 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 65.0% |
| Canterbury 008C | 1,249 | 395.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.1% |
| Canterbury 008D | 1,093 | 143.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.4% |
| Canterbury 008E | 1,570 | 174.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 76.5% |
| Canterbury 009A | 2,189 | 108.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.8% |
| Canterbury 009B | 1,526 | 28.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 67.7% |
| Canterbury 009C | 1,457 | 101.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 73.4% |
| Canterbury 009D | 1,198 | 104.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 63.7% |
| Canterbury 009E | 2,362 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 72.3% |
Your MP
- Rosie DuffieldIndependentMP for Canterbury
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 Whitstable1
Middle areas in Whitstable4
Towns near Whitstable6
Whitstable in brief
Whitstable is a town in Canterbury, South East.
About 31,967 people lived in Whitstable in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £393,500 in 2025 across 530 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 83.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Whitstable was £393,500 in 2025.
Whitstable had 32,185 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Whitstable live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whitstable, 82.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.