Neighbourhoods in Swale
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17 neighbourhoods · 90 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Sheerness East | £859 | +3.4% | 71 | 13 |
| Sheerness West | £943 | +3.4% | 49 | 16 |
| Sittingbourne Central & Milton Regis | £981 | +3.4% | 65 | 8 |
| Sittingbourne East | £987 | +3.4% | 49 | 47 |
| Queenborough | £988 | +3.4% | 50 | 38 |
| Borden & The Meads | £1,045 | +3.4% | 55 | 49 |
| Minster South | £1,056 | +3.4% | 40 | 56 |
| Iwade & Kemsley | £1,070 | +3.4% | 59 | 75 |
| Sheppey East | £1,086 | +3.4% | 1 | 24 |
| Minster North | £1,092 | +3.4% | 29 | 68 |
| Faversham East | £1,132 | +3.4% | 43 | 44 |
| Sittingbourne West | £1,135 | +3.4% | 78 | 78 |
| Faversham West | £1,169 | +3.4% | 35 | 49 |
| Teynham & Badlesmere | £1,191 | +3.4% | 13 | 62 |
| Sittingbourne South, Bapchild & Bredgar | £1,222 | +3.4% | 45 | 74 |
| Newington, Halstow & Upchurch | £1,263 | +3.4% | 4 | 68 |
| Boughton & Selling | £1,282 | +3.4% | 16 | 86 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Swale
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Swale. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Swale median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Swale.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Swale
Crime in Swale runs at 18% below the national average. Bottom quartile (#247 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 82.6, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Swale
100% of schools serving Swale are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Swale
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Swale
Swale has 0.36 jobs per resident locally. Below median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Swale
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Swale?
- The median monthly rent across Swale is £1,104, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Swale?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Swale by estimated median rent is Sheerness East at approximately £859/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Swale?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Swale is Sittingbourne West at 78/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Swale a safe area?
- Swale has an average safety score of 52/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Swale?
- The most common council tax band in Swale is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £262. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Swale.
- What is the average salary in Swale?
- The median annual resident salary in Swale is £33,647, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Swale, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Swale?
- The average property price in Swale is approximately £289,812 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Swale?
- Gross rental yield in Swale is approximately 4.1% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Swale?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 4.4 years in Swale. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Swale?
- 100% of premises in Swale are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Swale?
- 3.7% of 16-64 residents in Swale are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Swale?
- Swale contains 17 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 90 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Swale
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Swale 010D
- Swale 001D
- Swale 010E
- Swale 015C
- Swale 001C
- Swale 009G
- Swale 001B
- Swale 015A
- Swale 001A
- Swale 002A
- Swale 007J
- Swale 007B
- Swale 009H
- Swale 010A
- Swale 012A
- Swale 009E
- Swale 006F
- Swale 011C
- Swale 016E
- Swale 011E
- Swale 012C
- Swale 012B
- Swale 010B
- Swale 009B
- Swale 011B
- Swale 004F
- Swale 006A
- Swale 009I
- Swale 015E
- Swale 004I
- Swale 014B
- Swale 016D
- Swale 005C
- Swale 005B
- Swale 014F
- Swale 011A
- Swale 006E
- Swale 013A
- Swale 015D
- Swale 014C
- Swale 007D
- Swale 014E
- Swale 004B
- Swale 002B
- Swale 003B
- Swale 013G
- Swale 007F
- Swale 008B
- Swale 015B
- Swale 012D
- Swale 004A
- Swale 015F
- Swale 005D
- Swale 013C
- Swale 009F
- Swale 009A
- Swale 006B
- Swale 005A
- Swale 008A
- Swale 010C
- Swale 003C
- Swale 011D
- Swale 004H
- Swale 003D
- Swale 002D
- Swale 007I
- Swale 004D
- Swale 006C
- Swale 016C
- Swale 007H
- Swale 003A
- Swale 007G
- Swale 002C
- Swale 013E
- Swale 017D
- Swale 017A
- Swale 014D
- Swale 004E
- Swale 008D
- Swale 013F
Showing 80 of 90 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.