What's the median rent in Boughton & Selling?

The median monthly rent across Boughton & Selling is £1,104.

How well-connected is Boughton & Selling?

Transport score: — out of 100. Combines walking time to the nearest rail station, walking time to the nearest metro stop, and public-transport time to clusters with 5,000+ jobs. The nearest rail station is roughly 31 minutes' walk.

What schools are near Boughton & Selling?

There are 2 schools within 2 km of Boughton & Selling, of which 0% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 5907 m away.

What is the council tax band in Boughton & Selling?

The most common council tax band in Boughton & Selling is C, with the typical Band D annual charge around £2,572. Council tax is set by Swale council and applies to every property in the area.

How long is the commute from Boughton & Selling to London?

By the fastest direct train, the journey from Boughton & Selling to central London is approximately 114 minutes. This is the fastest no-change rail journey from the local area centroid; door-to-door times will vary with walking time to the station.

Is gigabit broadband available in Boughton & Selling?

3% of premises in Boughton & Selling are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is partial — check the specific postcode for service availability.

What is the deprivation rank of Boughton & Selling?

Boughton & Selling sits in IMD decile 5 of 10, where 1 is the most deprived 10% of local areas nationally and 10 is the least deprived. The Index of Multiple Deprivation combines income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers and environment.

What's the tenure mix in Boughton & Selling?

75% of households in Boughton & Selling are owner-occupied. The remainder is split between private renting and social housing — see the Demographics section for the full breakdown from Census 2021.

What is the average property price in Boughton & Selling?

The average property price across Swale (the local authority covering Boughton & Selling) is approximately £289,812, per HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Per-local area prices vary; see the cost-of-living section for medians by property type.

Is Boughton & Selling a commuter town or workplace hub?

Commuter town — most working residents travel out for work. (0.36 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £33,647.)

Which local areas are part of Boughton & Selling?

Boughton & Selling contains 4 local areas: Swale 017D, Swale 017A, Swale 017B, Swale 017C.

What is the average rent in Boughton & Selling?

The estimated median monthly rent in Boughton & Selling is £1,104. This is derived from the council-area ONS rental figure scaled by the local sale-price gradient — see the Cost section for the breakdown by bedroom count and the affordability ratio against local salaries.

Is Boughton & Selling a safe place to live?

Boughton & Selling has a safety score of 86/100. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crime per 1,000 residents, inverted so 100 is the safest 1% of England + Wales. The Safety section below shows the breakdown by category.

What schools are near Boughton & Selling?

0% of schools within 2 km of Boughton & Selling are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.

How long is the commute from Boughton & Selling?

Public-transport commute time from Boughton & Selling to central London is approximately 114 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.

How is Boughton & Selling different from the rest of Swale?

Boughton & Selling contains 4 sub-areas. The "Sub-areas" section below lets you drill into each one individually — they often vary by 20%+ on rent and demographics within the same neighbourhood.

Where does Boughton & Selling rank in Swale?

Boughton & Selling scores 16/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Swale, see the Cities table on the Swale page.

Neighbourhood · Swale · South East

Boughton & Selling

Swale 017 · 4 sub-areas · 5,948 residents

Updated May 2026

Verdict

How are these scored? →

Best for Families (56/100)Watch-out: Young professionals (39/100)Liveability 16/100 · Bottom quartileResidential

Boughton & Selling is a settled residential pocket of Swale. The bigger gravitational centre is London, around 114 minutes away by direct train, but most days don't require leaving — local life is what people are here for. The population skews older, with a long-settled feel and a high share of retirees; most homes are owner-occupied, so turnover is low and many residents have been here a long time.

Median rent

£1,104+3.4%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Crime / 1k / yr

47.5

Top quartile

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Best hub commute

114 min

Direct to London

Network Rail TTIS (CIF) · Apr 2026

Good schools 2 km

2 schools within 2 km

Ofsted (spatial) · Feb 2026

Liveability

16/100

Bottom quartile

Population

5,948

4 sub-areas

ONS LSOA mid-2024 estimates · 2024

Overview

What's it like to live in Boughton & Selling?

A snapshot of Boughton & Selling

Greenspace is reachable but isn't on the immediate doorstep — most residents walk a few blocks to reach a park; The streets feel safe by national standards — police-recorded crime is well below the country-wide median; Transport links are limited — a car or e-bike is a practical assumption for most regular trips; rents are roughly in line with the national norm, at around £1,104 a month for a typical home; broadband infrastructure is patchy — worth checking the specific postcode.

Generated from the latest May 2026 data · refreshed automatically

Figures are aggregated across 4 sub-areas — population-weighted means for rates, sums for counts. Sources cited beneath each section.

Boughton & Selling in Swale

Cost

Cost of living

What does it cost to live here?

Rent runs at £1,104 a month — broadly in line with the national median. Council tax is most commonly Band C.

Median rentCouncil area

£1,104/mo

Up 3.4% on last year

in line with national average

Total monthly baseline

£1,318/mo

Rent + council tax + indicative utilities

Council tax — modal bandCouncil area

Around £2,572/yr · £214/mo

Years to save 10% deposit

6.2 yr

Assumes saving 20% of gross salary

+23% vs nat'l avg

Rent — whole property and per room (sharing)2-bed: £1,020/mo · £510/room

By bedroom count

1 bedroom£772/mosolo only

2 bedrooms£1,020/mo£510/mo per room shared

3 bedrooms£1,232/mo£411/mo per room shared

4 bedrooms£1,846/mo£462/mo per room shared

By property type

Flat£861/mo

Terraced house£1,140/mo

Semi-detached£1,232/mo

Detached house£1,567/mo

Can you afford to live here?Rent as a share of take-home, four common living arrangements

Renting alone

Whole property, on the local median salary

48%

of take-home

£1,104/mo per person · take-home £2,312/moA stretch

Sharing a 2-bed

Half a 2-bed flat, on the local median salary

22%

of take-home

£510/mo per person · take-home £2,312/moComfortable

Sharing a 3-bed

One room in a 3-bed flat-share

18%

of take-home

£411/mo per person · take-home £2,312/moComfortable

Couple, two incomes

Whole property split between two earners on the local median salary

24%

of take-home

£552/mo per person · take-home £2,312/moComfortable

Take-home is calculated from the median resident salary using UK 2024–25 income-tax + NI bands. Higher earners and dual-income households see lower percentages than the table shows; the median figures are a market benchmark, not a personal estimate.

Buying — affordability detail~£2,164/mo on a 25-year mortgage at 5%

Median sale price (Land Registry)£411,250

Average price (HPI, smoother)Council area£289,8120.2% YoY

Estimated monthly mortgage£2,164/mo

Gross rental yield (BTL)3.1%

Years to save 10% deposit6.2 years

Bills — council tax, energy, fuel povertyCouncil tax (Band D, all-in): £2,406/yr

Council tax — Band D (incl. precepts)Council area£2,406/yr

Council tax — band-mix-weighted (typical home)Council area£2,572/yr

EPC median rating—

Homes rated A or B6%

Households in fuel poverty13.7%

Source: ONS PIPR (rent), HM Land Registry / HMLR HPI (sale prices), VOA + MHCLG (council tax), MHCLG EPC bulk download, DESNZ LILEE (fuel poverty).

Safety

How safe is Boughton & Selling?

Safety scores 86/100 against the national distribution, with police-recorded crime running 2.1× safer than the national average (47.5 per 1,000 residents per year).

Crime / 1k / yr

47.5

recorded incidents per 1,000 residents · 6 / month

Safety scoreHow? →

86/100

Higher is safer (national percentile)

Deprivation decile

5/10

1 = most deprived nationally · 10 = least

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 by category, per 1,000 residents per yearBar lengths show share of total recorded crime.

Violent & sexual offences

19.4 /1k

Anti-social behaviour

6.0 /1k

Public order

2.1 /1k

Vehicle crime

3.9 /1k

Criminal damage & arson

6.6 /1k

Burglary

2.2 /1k

Other theft

3.1 /1k

Shoplifting

0.7 /1k

Drugs

0.8 /1k

Possession of weapons

0.7 /1k

Robbery

0.7 /1k

Source: data.police.uk monthly counts (12-month rolling, normalised by ONS mid-year population). Greater Manchester values use IMD 2019 crime-domain proxy.

Transport

Getting around Boughton & Selling

Weak transport links — 30/100; nearest rail station is Selling at around 2446 m; 11 bus stops within five minutes' walk; London is reachable in 114 minutes by direct train.

Transport scoreHow? →

30/100

Below median

Best hub commute

114 min

Direct to London

WFH share

35%

Census 2021 — work mostly from home

Nearest National Rail

Selling

2.4 km walk · 114 min to London

Nearest tube / metro / tram

Out of metro reach

Nearest metro is more than 5 km away.

Commute by train to major UK hubsFastest: London in 114 min

London

114 min

Manchesterapprox

276 min

Birminghamapprox

226 min

Leedsapprox

278 min

Liverpoolapprox

286 min

Bristolapprox

237 min

Sheffieldapprox

268 min

Edinburghapprox

392 min

Glasgowapprox

421 min

Cardiffapprox

258 min

Walking time from the LSOA centroid to the nearest station, plus the fastest direct train from there. Routes that require a change of train are marked “approx” (haversine fallback).

How residents commute (Census 2021)35% work from home

Drive56%Public transport4%Walk / cycle4%Work from home35%

Method of travel to work for residents in employment, Census 2021 (TS061).

Broadband and mobile coverageTop speed available: 1,000 Mbps · 3% of premises

Top advertised speedCouncil area1,000 Mbps (gigabit)

Gigabit-ready (1,000 Mbps)Council area3% of premises

Ultrafast (≥300 Mbps)Council area3% of premises

Below USO (under 10 Mbps)Council area0.0% of premises

Outdoor 5G coverageCouncil area100%

Coverage from Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Top speeds reflect what's available to buy at the address; actual experienced speeds depend on the chosen package and provider.

Source: National Rail TTIS timetable (direct journey times), TfL Open Data + OSM (metros), Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, ONS Census 2021 (TS061).

Schools

Schools near Boughton & Selling

2 schools within a 2 km radius; around 0% rated Good or Outstanding — somewhat below the national norm; the nearest Outstanding school, Sheldwich Primary School, is around 4993 m away.

School scoreHow? →

14/100

Bottom quartile

Schools within 2 km

0 rated Good or Outstanding

% Good or Outstanding

Of all schools within 2 km

−70.0 pp vs nat'l avg

Nearest Outstanding school

Sheldwich Primary School

5.0 km from the centroid

Closest schools4 closest within ~5 km of the centroid

Name	Phase	Rating	Distance
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School	Academy Converter	Good	4.1 km
The Abbey School	Academy Converter	Inadequate	4.2 km
Davington Primary School	Community School	Good	4.9 km
Sheldwich Primary School	Academy Converter	Outstanding	5.0 km

Source: Ofsted school inspection ratings (latest inspection per school), spatially joined to the local area centroid via PostGIS.

Daily life

What's actually around Boughton & Selling?

OpenStreetMap counts of the things people use day-to-day — pubs, restaurants, parks, cinemas, supermarkets — within walking distance of the centroid.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Counts derived via the Overpass API and refreshed monthly.

Eat & drink

Pubs1≤ 500 m
Bars0≤ 500 m
Restaurants0≤ 500 m
Cafés0≤ 500 m
Cuisine variety0≤ 1 km

Going out

Cinemas0≤ 2 km
Theatres0≤ 2 km
Museums0≤ 2 km
Galleries0≤ 2 km
Nightclubs0≤ 1 km

Practical & family

Supermarkets0≤ 500 m
Libraries1≤ 500 m
Parks0≤ 500 m
Playgrounds2≤ 500 m
Gyms0≤ 1 km

Getting around

Bus stops (close)11≤ 500 m
Bus stops (wider)11≤ 1 km
Rail stations0≤ 500 m
Tube entrances0≤ 500 m
Tram stops0≤ 500 m

Who it suits

Is Boughton & Selling right for you?

Six persona fit scores from 0–100 — each built from the metrics that group actually optimises for. Click through to the matching ranked list for the wider region.

Families

56/100

Mixed

Schools (0% Good+ within 2 km) and the family-age share fall below what most parents look for here.

See schools ranking →

Young professionals

39/100

Not ideal

Transport and connectivity are middling, which weighs on this fit for office-based or hybrid workers.

See transport ranking →

Couples

49/100

Mixed

Rent, safety, or liveability falls below what most couples prioritise — worth comparing against nearby neighbourhoods.

See affordability ranking →

Retirees

48/100

Mixed

Healthcare proximity, greenspace and the over-65 share fall below what most retirees prioritise here.

See safety ranking →

Investors / BTL

51/100

Mixed

Yield, growth, or rental demand are weak relative to peers — better-fitting BTL areas exist nearby.

See earnings ranking →

Solo renters

44/100

Mixed

Rental stock or transit access fall short — easier neighbourhoods exist for solo renters who need flexibility.

See transport ranking →

How these ratings are built

Each persona has its own scoring model. We pick the metrics that group actually optimises for, then weight and curve them so realistic trade-offs are reflected — a great score in one factor can't fully paper over a poor score in another. Weights sum to 100 before any synergy bonuses.

Families

Families consistently prioritise schooling and a safe, settled neighbourhood, so those two factors carry the most weight and use a convex curve — mediocre values are penalised more than a simple average would suggest. A bonus is applied where good schools and low crime coincide.

Good+ schools within 2 km28%
Crime / safety score22%
Households with children15%
Greenspace proximity15%
Owner-occupation rate10%
Family-age population10%

Young professionals

Young professionals optimise for commute, connectivity and being around peers. Transport gets the largest single weight; broadband uses a concave curve so any decent gigabit coverage counts, and a bonus applies in well-connected, graduate-heavy areas (the classic urban knowledge-hub signal).

Transport / PTAL score27%
18–34 population share22%
Gigabit broadband coverage18%
Degree-educated adults14%
Crime / safety score12%
Private-rental availability7%

Couples

Couples without children weight liveability and day-to-day quality highest. Rent is on a sigmoid curve with a steep cliff between £800 and £1,400/month, reflecting how affordability flips from comfortable to stretched across that range. A bonus applies where the area is both safe and walkable.

Liveability composite25%
Crime / safety score22%
Transport / PTAL score18%
Median rent affordability17%
EPC energy efficiency10%
25–49 population share8%

Retirees

Retirees prioritise healthcare proximity, walkable greenspace and a settled neighbourhood with peers in the same life stage. GP and hospital distance are the largest weights — both use exponential drop-offs because needing care 5 km away is much worse than 1 km away, regardless of how many other amenities are nearby.

GP proximity22%
Hospital proximity18%
Crime / safety score18%
Greenspace proximity14%
Over-65 population share10%
Single-floor accommodation10%
Owner-occupation rate8%

Investors / BTL

Buy-to-let investors weight pure financial signals: yield, capital growth, tenant demand, supply pipeline and area job-growth. Crime and amenities only matter as far as they protect the tenant pool. Yield uses a sigmoid that rewards the realistic 4–7% band; pipeline penalises areas with heavy new-build supply that will pressure future rents.

Gross rental yield32%
House-price growth (HPI YoY)20%
Tenant demand18%
5-year jobs growth12%
Supply pipeline (inverse)10%
Safety score8%

Solo renters

Solo renters and students optimise for flexibility — depth of private-rental supply, peers in the same life stage and frictionless transit. Cost matters but the curve is gentler than for couples (no shared income). A nearby Tube/metro/rail station is heavily weighted because cars are usually off the table for this group.

Private-rental availability22%
Single-person households18%
Transit proximity16%
Median rent affordability14%
18–34 population share12%
Gigabit broadband coverage10%
Crime / safety score8%

Demographics

Who lives here?

Census 2021 snapshot: older population (25% aged 65+), high owner-occupation (75%).

Age profile

Under 1819%18–3415%35–4918%50–6424%65+25%

Tenure

Owned75%Private rent12%Social rent11%

Households

One person25%Couple with children18%Lone parent7%Other6%

Property types

Flat4%Terraced15%Semi-detached37%Detached41%

Ethnic mix and country of birthDiversity index: 6/100

Ethnic group

White97%Asian1%Black0%Mixed1%Other0%

Country of birth

UK-born93%Born outside UK7%

Religion

Christian53%Muslim0%No religion40%Other1%

Education and health33% degree-educated

Degree-educated (16+)33.3%−0.2 pp vs nat'l

No qualifications17.8%

Self-rated good or very good health82.5%

Self-rated bad or very bad health4.6%

Disabled (Equality Act)17.5%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (TS001 / TS003 / TS004 / TS021 / TS030 / TS037 / TS038 / TS044 / TS061 / TS066 / TS067).

Employment

Work and income

primarily residential — most working residents commute out (0.36 jobs per resident); median resident salary £33,647/year; 3.7% on the DWP claimant count.

Median resident salaryCouncil area

£33,647/yr

Workplace earnings of people who live here

Unemployment rate (ILO)

4.4%

ONS ILO method — 60% economically active (Census 2021)

Jobs in the council areaCouncil area

62,000

0.36 jobs per working-age resident

Working status of 16+ residents (Census 2021)ILO unemployment 4.4% · 60% economically active · 40% inactive

ILO unemployment rate: 4.4% — This uses the same methodology as the ONS Labour Force Survey: unemployment is expressed as a share of the economically active population (employed + job-seeking only), not all 16+ residents. Retirees, students, full-time carers and others who are “inactive” are excluded from the denominator, giving a like-for-like figure to the national headline rate.

Employed57%Unemployed3%Inactive40%

Census 2021 TS066. The three bars above share a denominator of all residents aged 16+ and always sum to 100%. "Inactive" covers students, retirees, full-time carers, the long-term sick and anyone not currently seeking work — which is why the raw employed% figure is lower than the LFS employment rate. The ILO unemployment rate above strips out inactive residents and matches the standard definition used in national statistics.

DWP claimant count: 3.7% of working-age (16-64) residents claim Universal Credit while seeking work or Jobseeker's Allowance. This is the live monthly unemployment proxy and is not directly comparable to the Census figures above — it counts a narrower group on a different denominator, but it's the most up-to-date local indicator.

Local job mix (BRES sectors, SIC 2007)Top sector: Retail & hospitality

Health & social

7.5%

Retail & hospitality

23.7%

Education

9.1%

Manufacturing

10.1%

Professional

6.2%

Construction

7.3%

Tech & ICT

1.4%

Finance

0.4%

Net commute flow: +53,527 jobs vs. working-age residents. More jobs than workers — net commuter inflow.

Source: ONS ASHE (resident salary), ONS Census 2021 TS066 (economic activity), ONS BRES NM_189_1 (jobs by sector), DWP claimant count.

Inside this neighbourhood

Sub-areas and postcodes in Boughton & Selling

4 sub-areas and 200+ postcodes. Tap any to drill in — hover previews on desktop.

Sub-area	Median rent	Liveability	Safety	Transport
Swale 017D	£1,104	26	87	23	View →
Swale 017A	£1,104	3	61	38	View →
Swale 017B	£1,104	5	86	12	View →
Swale 017C	£1,104	37	85	42	View →

Postcodes covered

In Swale 017D

CT2 9JX CT2 9JZ CT2 9LA CT2 9LB CT2 9LD CT2 9LE CT2 9LF CT2 9LG ME13 9AE ME13 9AF ME13 9AJ ME13 9BF ME13 9FB ME13 9FP ME13 9FS ME13 9FX ME13 9LD ME13 9LE ME13 9LF ME13 9LG ME13 9LH ME13 9LJ ME13 9LL ME13 9LN ME13 9LR ME13 9LU ME13 9LW ME13 9LX ME13 9LY ME13 9LZ ME13 9NA ME13 9NB ME13 9ND ME13 9NE ME13 9NF ME13 9NG ME13 9NH ME13 9NJ ME13 9NL ME13 9NN ME13 9NQ ME13 9NR ME13 9NS ME13 9NT ME13 9NW ME13 9NX ME13 9NY ME13 9NZ ME13 9PB ME13 9PD ME13 9PE ME13 9PF

In Swale 017A

ME13 0DL ME13 0DP ME13 0DZ ME13 0ED ME13 0EH ME13 0LG ME13 0LL ME13 0LN ME13 0LP ME13 0LR ME13 0LS ME13 0LT ME13 0LU ME13 0LW ME13 0LX ME13 0LY ME13 0LZ ME13 0NA ME13 0NB ME13 0ND ME13 0NE ME13 0NF ME13 0NG ME13 0NH ME13 0NJ ME13 0NQ ME13 0PA ME13 0PS ME13 9FF ME13 9FG ME13 9FH ME13 9FR ME13 9FU ME13 9GB ME13 9HD ME13 9HW

In Swale 017B

ME13 8UP ME13 8UR ME13 8UT ME13 8YR ME13 9BT ME13 9BU ME13 9BY ME13 9BZ ME13 9DA ME13 9DD ME13 9DE ME13 9DF ME13 9DG ME13 9DH ME13 9DJ ME13 9DL ME13 9DN ME13 9DP ME13 9DQ ME13 9DR ME13 9DS ME13 9DU ME13 9DW ME13 9DX ME13 9DY ME13 9DZ ME13 9EA ME13 9EB ME13 9ED ME13 9EE ME13 9EG ME13 9EH ME13 9EJ ME13 9EL ME13 9EN ME13 9EP ME13 9EQ ME13 9ER ME13 9ES ME13 9EU ME13 9EW ME13 9EX ME13 9EY ME13 9EZ ME13 9FA ME13 9FD ME13 9FE ME13 9FN ME13 9FQ ME13 9FT ME13 9FW ME13 9GD ME13 9HA ME13 9HB ME13 9HG ME13 9HH ME13 9HJ ME13 9HN ME13 9HQ ME13 9HT ME13 9HX ME13 9HY ME13 9HZ ME13 9JA ME13 9JB ME13 9JD ME13 9JE ME13 9JG ME13 9JH ME13 9JJ ME13 9JL ME13 9JN ME13 9JP ME13 9JQ ME13 9JR ME13 9JS ME13 9JT ME13 9JU ME13 9JW ME13 9JX ME13 9JY ME13 9JZ ME13 9LB

In Swale 017C

ME13 9AA ME13 9AB ME13 9AD ME13 9AG ME13 9AH ME13 9AL ME13 9AN ME13 9AP ME13 9AR ME13 9AS ME13 9AW ME13 9AX ME13 9AY ME13 9AZ ME13 9BA ME13 9BB ME13 9BD ME13 9BE ME13 9BG ME13 9BH ME13 9BJ ME13 9BL ME13 9BN ME13 9BQ ME13 9ET ME13 9FJ ME13 9FL ME13 9GA ME13 9JF

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FAQ

Frequently asked

What's the median rent in Boughton & Selling?: The median monthly rent across Boughton & Selling is £1,104.
How safe is Boughton & Selling?: Boughton & Selling has a safety score of — out of 100, where higher is safer. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted.
How well-connected is Boughton & Selling?: Transport score: — out of 100. Combines walking time to the nearest rail station, walking time to the nearest metro stop, and public-transport time to clusters with 5,000+ jobs. The nearest rail station is roughly 31 minutes' walk.
What schools are near Boughton & Selling?: There are 2 schools within 2 km of Boughton & Selling, of which 0% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 5907 m away.
What is the council tax band in Boughton & Selling?: The most common council tax band in Boughton & Selling is C, with the typical Band D annual charge around £2,572. Council tax is set by Swale council and applies to every property in the area.
How long is the commute from Boughton & Selling to London?: By the fastest direct train, the journey from Boughton & Selling to central London is approximately 114 minutes. This is the fastest no-change rail journey from the local area centroid; door-to-door times will vary with walking time to the station.
Is gigabit broadband available in Boughton & Selling?: 3% of premises in Boughton & Selling are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is partial — check the specific postcode for service availability.
What is the deprivation rank of Boughton & Selling?: Boughton & Selling sits in IMD decile 5 of 10, where 1 is the most deprived 10% of local areas nationally and 10 is the least deprived. The Index of Multiple Deprivation combines income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers and environment.
What's the tenure mix in Boughton & Selling?: 75% of households in Boughton & Selling are owner-occupied. The remainder is split between private renting and social housing — see the Demographics section for the full breakdown from Census 2021.
What is the average property price in Boughton & Selling?: The average property price across Swale (the local authority covering Boughton & Selling) is approximately £289,812, per HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Per-local area prices vary; see the cost-of-living section for medians by property type.
Is Boughton & Selling a commuter town or workplace hub?: Commuter town — most working residents travel out for work. (0.36 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £33,647.)
Which local areas are part of Boughton & Selling?: Boughton & Selling contains 4 local areas: Swale 017D, Swale 017A, Swale 017B, Swale 017C.

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Frequently asked about Boughton & Selling

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What is the average rent in Boughton & Selling?: The estimated median monthly rent in Boughton & Selling is £1,104. This is derived from the council-area ONS rental figure scaled by the local sale-price gradient — see the Cost section for the breakdown by bedroom count and the affordability ratio against local salaries.
Is Boughton & Selling a safe place to live?: Boughton & Selling has a safety score of 86/100. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crime per 1,000 residents, inverted so 100 is the safest 1% of England + Wales. The Safety section below shows the breakdown by category.
What schools are near Boughton & Selling?: 0% of schools within 2 km of Boughton & Selling are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.
How long is the commute from Boughton & Selling?: Public-transport commute time from Boughton & Selling to central London is approximately 114 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.
How is Boughton & Selling different from the rest of Swale?: Boughton & Selling contains 4 sub-areas. The "Sub-areas" section below lets you drill into each one individually — they often vary by 20%+ on rent and demographics within the same neighbourhood.
Where does Boughton & Selling rank in Swale?: Boughton & Selling scores 16/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Swale, see the Cities table on the Swale page.

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